>What currently seems to happen is that cache_mem is completely ignored and squid is trying to shove up as many objects into my ram as possible, < Not exactly. You might be a victim of max_object_size, as I mentionead already above. squid will store a 500MB video temporarily in mem, unles you put some cap on that. Look at access.log, whether you can find such large objects. -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/high-memory-usage-squid-3-2-0-tp4659422p4659468.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.