Henrik, I read FAQ and implemented almost most of the suggestion to reduce memory usage. I am not much concern about memory usage as there plenty of available memory but the issue is CPU usage goes high up to 100% and slows down squid response once squid grows beyond allocated cache_mem size . Does that mean squid is spending most of time in releasing the objects from cache ? Most of the objects stored in cache has TTL of 1 hour. Following are few lines from squid.conf file. http_port 0.0.0.0:80 accel defaultsite=s1.xyz.com vhost protocol=http cache_peer 10.0.0.175 Parent 80 0 no-query round-robin originserver monitorurl=http://10.0.0.175:80/healthcheck.gif cache_peer 10.0.0.177 Parent 80 0 no-query round-robin originserver monitorurl=http://10.0.0.177:80/healthcheck.gif cache_peer 10.0.0.179 Parent 80 0 no-query round-robin originserver monitorurl=http://10.0.0.179:80/healthcheck.gif cache_peer 10.0.0.181 Parent 80 0 no-query round-robin originserver monitorurl=http://10.0.0.181:80/healthcheck.gif dead_peer_timeout 10 seconds hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin hierarchy_stoplist ? cache_mem 4294967296 bytes maximum_object_size_in_memory 1048576 bytes memory_replacement_policy lru cache_replacement_policy lru cache_dir null /empty cache_swap_low 60 cache_swap_high 80 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern (cgi-bin|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 1800 20% 3600 Regards Nitesh On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Have you read the faq section on memory usage? > > > > On fre, 2008-11-07 at 20:02 +0530, nitesh naik wrote: >> Henrik / Amos, >> >> Do you all think I should reduce cache_mem to lesser value ? Squid >> stops responding as memory usage of squid grows upto 12GB. I have >> allocate 8 GB cache_mem. >> >> We are using 64 bit machine running on Suse 10.1. >> >> Regards >> Nitesh >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:35 PM, nitesh naik <niteshnaik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Thanks everyone for your reply. >> > >> > I went through all these docs and also compiled squid with dmalloc >> > option and disabled memory_pool. Squid memory usage grows upto 12GB+ >> > and squid stops responding when we try to rotate logs using squid -k >> > rotate. >> > >> > I want squid up and running all the time even if its memory usage >> > grows double the allocate cache_mem value. >> > >> > Regards >> > Nitesh >> > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Squid memory usage grows beyond allocate cache_mem size of 8 GB. >> >> >> >> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory >> >> >> > >
