On 19.11.10 15:13, Sathish Kannan Subramanian wrote: > First of all sorry if this question was asked before, I am > running squid2.6stable21 version in production server. That's too old version. Upgrade to 2.7 or 3.1 if possible. > I am unable to upgrade the squid with latest stable version b'coz its in > production server. so you prefer slow service and unability to run other services over upgrading Squid? > The server has 8GB RAM, total no. of users 160. > > My problem is, squid taking all > the 8GB ram(almost all), so i am unable to run any other services also > the surfing speed is slow. is it the squid _process_ taking 8GB of RAM? is it virtual or resident memory size? > cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 500 16 256 > cache_mem 8MB This indicates memory leak in squid or some libraries. With this configuration such a problem is unlikely to appear. However it's possible that users are downloading that many content in parallel that the memory is eaten by buffers. What does squid's memory info say? -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.