[squid-users] Squid Memory Leak with certain FTP requests?

Silamael Darkomen silamael at coronamundi.de
Thu Feb 12 08:03:00 UTC 2015


On 11.02.2015 21:05, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>> Some FTP files pointless to cache.
>>
>> Sure, maybe some FTP files are not to be cached.
>>
>>>
>>> If it need just once..... For what cache it?
>>
>> I do not want to cache any. And I think a 'cache deny all' does that.
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> Nevertheless, even with no caching at all the Squid process constantly
>> needs more memory and squidclient reports that the memory is used for
>> the 2K buffers.
>>
>> Just try it. Squid with default configuration and cache deny all and
>> then do some wget ftp://server/path/. Each requests will increase the 2K
>> buffers.
>>
> 
> Thank you. Can you drop that into a bug report please so we dont loose
> track of it?
> 
> Cheers
> Amos

Hi Amos,

I will file a proper bug report with debug output and such when I'm back
at work next monday.
Any idea what's wrong here? For me it seems that the index.html Squid is
generating for FTP requests with just an directory is not freed internally.

Greetings,
Matthias


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