Re: [squid-users] squid: Memory utilization higher than expected since moving from 3.3 to 3.4 and Vary: working

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
Received on Mon Jul 07 2014 - 13:40:20 MDT