On 2014-07-07 20:46, Martin Sperl wrote:
Hi! We have found out that since we moved from squid 3.3 to 3.4.3 (and the corresponding Vary) the memory utilization of squid has increased. It is 10GB right now 9.6G in memory, but we have only configured 4GB for in Memory caching.
Yes. 4GB for memory caching *only*, and all your reports confirm the RAM cache allocated 4GB worth of memory blocks for caching purposes.
But Squid uses memory for other things as explained by the FAQ. <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#I_set_cache_mem_to_XX.2C_but_the_process_grows_beyond_that.21> <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#Why_does_Squid_use_so_much_memory.21.3F> Amos