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Amos

I can confirm that with the same kernal, v2.6STABLE21 works fine

cheers
Ivan

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ivan . wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Had this running on a RedHat EL5 64bit OS running Squid v3.0.STABLE16
>> for about 3 days, with 8GB of memory. Slowly but surely "top" shows
>> the availble memory dropping down to 500MB, which concerned me a great
>> deal.
>>
>> I am not caching, using the cache_dir null directive, so not sure what
>> is going on other a memory leak. Restarting the squid process didn't
>> help, so I bounced the box and low and behold available memory is
>> around 7GB.
>
> Um ... Restarting Squid drops all the memory it has allocated, whether leaked or not. Same as killing the process.
>
> This sounds very much like something I saw back in the 2.6.31 kernel last year. Any app that used a lot of memory or connections slowly (relative) leaked RAM into the kernel space somehow. Only a system restart or kernel upgrade to 2.6.32 fixed it here.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1


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