Thanks for Your reply, As you sugested now I have squid 2.6 STABLE 17 and the memory usage is the same as it was before: top - 21:59:22 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.02 Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3502208k total, 3059428k used, 442780k free, 3828k buffers Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 32544k cached %MEM PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 42.9 2339 proxy 15 0 1469m 1.4g 1512 S 0 0:11.99 squid 42.5 2322 root 25 0 1456m 1.4g 396 S 0 0:00.11 squid Amos Jeffries-2 wrote: > > Tomek K. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have squid server running on Linux Debian Etch. Squid Version >> 2.6.STABLE5 > > First step is upgrade to the latest 2.6 STABLE17 from unstable. There > have been a lot of improvements made since stable5. > > Amos > >> is using LDAP group authentication based on Win2003 domain controller. >> The hardware configuration is: >> IBM xSeries 336 with one XEON 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 2xHDD SCSI 146GB 15K with >> RAID 1 >> >> The problem is that the squid restarts after memory leak. I tried to find >> the reason, and I found that the reason is to big memory consumption by >> squid parent proces which is almost the same as child memory usage which >> is >> the main cache proces. >> >> >> Below is the top informations about memory usage: >> top - 22:41:04 up 1 day, 3:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 >> Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, >> 0.0%st >> Mem: 3502208k total, 3360836k used, 141372k free, 118448k buffers >> Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 165420k cached >> >> %MEM PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND >> 42.9 4181 proxy 15 0 1469m 1.4g 1512 S 0 0:11.81 squid >> 42.5 4175 root 25 0 1456m 1.4g 404 S 0 0:00.10 squid >> >> This are the main squid.conf entries: >> http_port 8080 >> icp_port 0 >> auth_param basic children 50 >> auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 minute >> >> >> no_cache deny QUERY >> >> cache_mem 48 MB >> maximum_object_size 900000 KB >> >> minimum_object_size 0 KB >> >> request_body_max_size 900000 KB >> >> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 8192 128 256 >> cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA >> cache_store_log none >> access_log /var/log/squid/access.log >> >> forwarded_for off >> >> delay_pools 1 >> delay_class 1 1 >> delay_access 1 allow all >> delay_parameters 1 74000/74000 >> >> >> Is this memory usage by parent proces right ? >> How can I change it ? >> >> Regards >> Tomasz Krawczyk >> >> > > > -- > Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17 or 3.0STABLE1. > There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Memory-usage-of-squid-parent-proces-the-same-as-child-tp14700091p14721402.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.