[squid-users] Squid memory usage

Hi All,

Squid memory usage grows beyond allocate cache_mem size of 8 GB. Total
physical memory available on machine is 20 GB.

Does that mean there is memory leak and I should replace malloc
library and compile squid ?

I am using squid2.6 without using disk for caching.

Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
        Total space in arena: -52916 KB
        Ordinary blocks: -82192 KB 215707 blks
        Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
        Holding blocks: 11404 KB 3 blks
        Free Small blocks: 0 KB
        Free Ordinary blocks: 29275 KB
        Total in use: -70788 KB 171%
        Total free: 29275 KB -70%
        Total size: -41512 KB
Memory accounted for:
        Total accounted: 11256849 KB
        memPoolAlloc calls: 870846623
        memPoolFree calls: 819677123

Regards
Nitesh
Received on Thu Nov 06 2008 - 08:45:56 MST