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 Memory accounted for: Total accounted: 40844 KB 8% memPool accounted: 40843 KB 8% memPool unaccounted: 497364 KB 92% memPoolAlloc calls: 0 memPoolFree calls: 841528260 On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Yucong Sun (叶雨飞) <sunyucong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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