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
