Hello, In a 3.1.6 squid installation on a CentOS 5.5 x86 host with customized kernel, top reports VERT 19.8g, and RES 14g while mgr:mem reports Total Allocated 7.25g (96.4% of which is mem_node) high 7.27g, In Use 7.25g %alloc 99.957 In squid.conf, the following is explicitly configured(mem_pool is default): cache_mem 7168 MB maximum_object_size 51200 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 1024 KB Probably memory leak. However, it is not reliably reproducible. Anyway, a restart will return memory to OS. Additionally, mgr reports negative values: Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): Total space in arena: -1672772 KB Ordinary blocks: 1252818 KB 22892799 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 14400 KB 8 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 1268713 KB Total in use: 1267218 KB -75% Total free: 1268713 KB -76% Total size: -1658372 KB Memory accounted for: Total accounted: -882139 KB 53% memPool accounted: -882139 KB 53% memPool unaccounted: -776234 KB 47% memPoolAlloc calls: 30300656492 memPoolFree calls: 30382011325 Thanks kc