[squid-users] Squid Memory Problems

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 11.01.17 18:20, Rahat Ali Khan wrote:
>We are using Squid 3.5.14 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.  The squid is using 4 
>worker process and is used as an explicit and intercept proxy.
>
>We have been facing a problem of squid processes consuming the memory 
>gradually and eventually it comes to a minimum threshold. The end 
>user browsing experience becomes extremely slow at that time. Cache 
>memory configured is 2 GB and total memory of squid machines is 8 and 
>16 GB on different boxes. The memory consumption graphs shows a 
>gradual decrease in available physical RAM and we have to ultimately 
>restart the squid boxed after 3-4 days.

I would like to note that squid does not use memory only for cache, but for
many different uses.

do you use shared memory cache?

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