Re: Squid-2.4 memory leaks

Thought so ;-)

And when you feel more comfortable about having switched to dlmalloc you
have a good reason to talk to the IRIX development department on why
IRIX malloc exhibits such bad behaviour for Squid. Quite likely there
are other applications as well where it performs close as bad. If you
have customers bitten by problems like this they are quite likely less
impressed by your products than they could be..

Also, before relaxing completely you should verify the process size
using your OS tools as well as the Squid provided statistics, but it is
looking good.

Regards
Henrik

Florin Andrei wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 00:17, Andres Kroonmaa wrote:
> >
> > Are you sure you are using dlmalloc?
>
> Ok, guys, you were right, it was me talking nonsense.
>
> I had dlmalloc on several proxies, but NOT on the main one. :-( I just
> installed ("unofficially", without going through the procedure, so don't
> tell my boss :-D) 2.4.STABLE2 compiled with dlmalloc. The result can be
> seen in the attached image, which is the memory usage in the last day.
> The first decrease was the last crash :-) but what's interesting is
> what's after the second decrease because that was when i installed the
> new version.
> See how nice and smooth (and, by Santa, how _small_!) is the memory
> usage now?
> I know it's not a 100% relevant test, since i'm running it for only a
> day, but it already made a big difference: with the old one, it would
> have been already around 700 MB and growing, while now it's somewhere
> around 200 and steady.
>
> My bad, sorry. And thank you for helping me find the solution.
> Squid rockz. ;-)
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
> "Making sure the kernel is highly stable even under extreme load (and
> longer uptimes) takes time." - bero@redhat.com
>
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Received on Wed Oct 24 2001 - 17:25:15 MDT