Memory usage and alternative mallocs

Situation: squid 1.1.16, 1 gig cache, 64M ram, Linux 2.0.31, stock
libc 5.3.12

Cache information:

Squid Object Cache: Version 1.1.16
Start Time: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 03:31:41 GMT
Current Time: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 01:35:54 GMT
Connection information for squid:
        Number of TCP connections: 313149
        Number of UDP connections: 0
        Connections per hour: 467.3
        Select loop called: 7681584 times, 314.031 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
        Storage Swap size: 808 MB
        Storage Mem size: 4906 KB
        Storage LRU Expiration Age: 365.00 days
        Requests given to unlinkd: 0
        Unused fileno stack count: 0
Resource usage for squid:
        CPU Time: 3605 seconds (1960 user 1645 sys)
        CPU Usage: 0%
        Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
        Page faults with physical i/o: 174809
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
        Total space in arena: 39240 KB
        Ordinary blocks: 15366 KB 16011 blks
        Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
        Holding blocks: 260 KB 1 blks
        Free Small blocks: 0 KB
        Free Ordinary blocks: 23873 KB
        Total in use: 15626 KB 40%
        Total free: 23873 KB 61%

The system is now starting to allocate swap space, performance is
nevertheless quite good, but I'm now wondering why 23M of memory are
reported free, but still locked by squid. I suspect a libc/malloc
problem, and I'd certainly love to see at least 20 of those megs
actually returned to the OS. Is there anything I can do? From the
page at http://cache.is.co.za/squid/opt/malloc.html I've found a list
of alternative malloc implementations, and I was wondering if any of
the list subscribers had any experience in this regard. As a last
note.. "Maximum Resident Size", it's reported as set to 0. What is it
exactly, and how can I change it? Doesn't seem to be "cache_mem" in
squid.conf, which is set at 8 megs and according to the notes before
it should be concerned only with in memory objects.

 thanks

-- danilo
Received on Tue Oct 28 1997 - 17:51:28 MST