[squid-users] Squid high memory usage

[Amos Jeffries]

On 6/06/2016 11:23 p.m., FredB wrote:
> 
> Capture with swap full 
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:            63         62          0          0          2         19
> -/+ buffers/cache:         40         22
> Swap:            1          1          0
> 

The image is showing the machine is nearing 64GB of RAM being used. With
~49% allocated to Squid and 50% allocated to other things.

Whatever that external memory user is you are lucky that Squid is not
using more. If it did the system would start swapping memory to disk,
and for Squid that is a very nasty situation leading directly to
terrible service times.

Amos