I will try this option. I found a bug report which seems similar to my issue : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664051 but seems the only solution is to upgrade to a newer squid version... :/ On 3 August 2012 14:47, Drunkard Zhang <gongfan193@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2012/8/3 Hugo Deprez <hugo.deprez@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Dear community, >> >> I am running squid3 on Linux Debian squeeze.(3.1.6). >> >> I encounter a suddenly a high memory usage on my virtual machine don't >> really know why. >> Looking at the cacti memory graph is showing a memory jump from 1.5 Gb >> to 4GB and then ther server started to swap. >> >> For information the virtual machine has 4Gb of RAM. >> >> Here is the settings of squid.conf : >> >> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 100 16 256 >> cache_mem 100 MB >> > > Can you try tuning these options? > memory_pools off > memory_pools_limit 1 MB > > >> hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? >> refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 >> refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 >> refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 >> refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 >> >> >> my squid3 process is using: 81% of my RAM. So arround 3,2Gb of memory. >> >> proxy 25889 0.6 81.1 3937744 3299616 ? S Aug02 9:34 >> (squid) -YC -f /etc/squid3/squid.conf >> >> I am currently having arround 50 users using it. >> >> >> I did have a look at the FAQ >> (http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#how-much-ram), but I >> didn't find any tips for my situation in it. >> >> >> Have you got any idea ? How can I troubleshoot this ? >> >> Thanks ! > > > > -- > 张绍文 > gongfan193@xxxxxxxxx > zhangsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 18601633785