On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 27.04.09 13:35, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > I had a similar experience and it turned out to be down to the RAM usage of > > squid exceeding 3GB (the limit for a process on a 32bit OS). As the cache > > memory filled up, squid's ram size increased until it restarted, and began > > filling up again. I reduced the mem_cache size and everything is fine > > since then. > > ... which most probably happens due to oversized cache_mem, not noticing > it's only about memory cache, not about memory usage: > > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory Absolutely. I meant cache_mem not mem_cache :-) Gavin