On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/05/2013 3:59 p.m., Nathan Hoad wrote: > > I take it you are referring to the 2.0g resident size? That is what I'm referring to, yes - the resident size has increased to 2.5g since my previous mail, virtual to 2.6g. > > 1GB is within the reasonable use limit for a fully loaded Squid under peak > traffic. The resident size reported is usually the biggest "ever" size of > memory usage by the process. > > FWIW: The memory report shows about 324MB being tracked by Squid as > currently in use for other things than cache_mem with 550 active clients > doing 117 transactions at present. The client transaction related pools show > that the current values are 1/3 of peak traffic, so 3x 360MB ==> ~1GB under > peak traffic appears entirely possible for your Squid. Out of interest, how did you come to the 324MB? I'd be interested in learning how to read the output a bit better :) > > HTH > Amos On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Alex Rousskov <rousskov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/27/2013 09:59 PM, Nathan Hoad wrote: > > > Memory leaks increase memory usage over time. Does that happen in your > environment? If you do not know, you may want to start logging Squid > memory usage every hour or so. I am happy to start doing this, but given that memory usage would increase over time through general use anyway, I'm unsure how I could differentiate between expected memory usage increases and a memory leak. Nathan.
