On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 05:27:26AM -0700, George Herbert wrote: > > If it is that same gnu malloc issue on pattern matching, then a > restart of Squid should clear it up temporarily. It would > consistently appear after some time, after the restart, though. > > You could either automatically restart more often than that time > period, or install the Google malloc library and recompile Squid to > use it instead of default gcc malloc. One of these is easier than the > other... If the system regex is issue, wouldn't it be better/simpler to just compile with PCRE? (LDFLAGS="-lpcreposix -lpcre"). It doesn't leak and as a bonus makes your REs faster.