Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:55:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Squid & heavy swapping Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908252142140.7951-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <19990826011038.6BDFD153B5@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jaime wrote: > Now to the problem... It seems that Squid (both 2.1 from the ports and > 2.2 from ftp.freebsd.org) will continue to use more and more RAM and VM as time > passes. This happens even if no one visits any web pages. Worse still, the > performance degrades to the point of taking well more than 5 or 10 minutes to > return a web page to the client if Squid is left running for a few days. If I > had to guess, I'd say that this is because it swaps a *lot* even when Squid > isn't retrieving any web pages. > > Does anyone know what I can do to make this work better? I can't upgrade > the RAM, unfortunately. However, the same amount of RAM was fine when I used > the older software (2.2.5-RELEASE and 1.1 (not even the NOVM version)). Is > there something that I'm over looking? A squid.conf setting that I should > make, perhaps? Which version of Squid 2.2 did you get? 2.2-STABLE4 fixed a memory leak or two, which could cause what you are seeing. It can be obtained and installed through a recent version of the ports collection, or the sources can be fetched directly from http://squid.nlanr.net. I recommend you use the ports collection, of course. To work around the problem you could also kill the squid daemon once a day or more often if required (such as from /etc/daily.local or a crontab entry). The daemon's parent, RunCache, will automatically restart it within 10 seconds. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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