here's the request from mgr:info Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): Total space in arena: 536788 KB Ordinary blocks: 173203 KB 4895 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 1420 KB 3 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 363584 KB Total in use: 174623 KB 32% Total free: 363585 KB 68% Total size: 538208 KB How can I get squid to release those memory? Cheers. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29.02.2012 07:09, Yucong Sun wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have squid 3.1 with 32M cache memory, but there's something called >> ordinal block keeps growing out of control taking about 500M memory, >> any way we could restrict that growth? > > > Where are you getting that information? in particular where does the term > "ordinal" show up? > > Amos