Re: [squid-users] Memory usage of squid parent proces the same as child

Tomek K. wrote:
> Thanks for Your reply,
>
> As you sugested now I have squid 2.6 STABLE 17 and the memory usage is the
> same as it was before:

Okay so now that we are sure its still an open issue. The task becomes
to track it down and see if its solvable.
I'm not able to help there I'm sorry, but others might.

>
> top - 21:59:22 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.02
> Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem: 3502208k total, 3059428k used, 442780k free, 3828k buffers
> Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 32544k cached
>
> %MEM PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND
> 42.9 2339 proxy 15 0 1469m 1.4g 1512 S 0 0:11.99 squid
> 42.5 2322 root 25 0 1456m 1.4g 396 S 0 0:00.11 squid
>
>
>
>
> Amos Jeffries-2 wrote:
>> Tomek K. wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have squid server running on Linux Debian Etch. Squid Version
>>> 2.6.STABLE5
>> First step is upgrade to the latest 2.6 STABLE17 from unstable. There
>> have been a lot of improvements made since stable5.
>>
>> Amos
>>
>>> is using LDAP group authentication based on Win2003 domain controller.
>>> The hardware configuration is:
>>> IBM xSeries 336 with one XEON 3.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 2xHDD SCSI 146GB 15K with
>>> RAID 1
>>>
>>> The problem is that the squid restarts after memory leak. I tried to find
>>> the reason, and I found that the reason is to big memory consumption by
>>> squid parent proces which is almost the same as child memory usage which
>>> is
>>> the main cache proces.
>>>
>>>
>>> Below is the top informations about memory usage:
>>> top - 22:41:04 up 1 day, 3:55, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>> Tasks: 112 total, 1 running, 111 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>>> Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
>>> 0.0%st
>>> Mem: 3502208k total, 3360836k used, 141372k free, 118448k buffers
>>> Swap: 2650684k total, 0k used, 2650684k free, 165420k cached
>>>
>>> %MEM PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND
>>> 42.9 4181 proxy 15 0 1469m 1.4g 1512 S 0 0:11.81 squid
>>> 42.5 4175 root 25 0 1456m 1.4g 404 S 0 0:00.10 squid
>>>
>>> This are the main squid.conf entries:
>>> http_port 8080
>>> icp_port 0
>>> auth_param basic children 50
>>> auth_param basic credentialsttl 1 minute
>>>
>>>
>>> no_cache deny QUERY
>>>
>>> cache_mem 48 MB
>>> maximum_object_size 900000 KB
>>>
>>> minimum_object_size 0 KB
>>>
>>> request_body_max_size 900000 KB
>>>
>>> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 8192 128 256
>>> cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA
>>> cache_store_log none
>>> access_log /var/log/squid/access.log
>>>
>>> forwarded_for off
>>>
>>> delay_pools 1
>>> delay_class 1 1
>>> delay_access 1 allow all
>>> delay_parameters 1 74000/74000
>>>
>>>
>>> Is this memory usage by parent proces right ?
>>> How can I change it ?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Tomasz Krawczyk
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17 or 3.0STABLE1.
>> There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.
>>
>>
>>
>

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Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17 or 3.0STABLE1.
There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.