[squid-users] HDD/RAM Capacity vs store_avg_object_size

[Amos Jeffries]

On 18/07/17 00:01, bugreporter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for this clarification. Can you please tell me what is the best
> method to measure the RAM used by Squid? Can I trust *top* and/or *ps* and
> look at the RSS? Or you suggest another method (maybe using the manager)?
> 
> For instance on a 64x when I start squid without cache_dir and a cache_mem
> of 0MB, the  "*top*" command gives me the following:
>    
> /PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
> 10996 root        0 -20   70436   3504   1000 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.00 squid
> 10999 squid      0 -20  624472 144052   6152 S  0.0  7.0   0:03.34 squid/
> 
> But the output of "squidclient -h localhost -p 3128 mgr:info' gives me this:
> 
> /Resource usage for squid:
> ...
> Maximum Resident Size: 576208 KB
> /
> Can you please give me advice about that?

Thats is maximum under the highest peak this Squid has apparently 
encountered. The value comes directly from the getrusage() syscall, 
Squid is not maintaining that value itself.

HTH
Amos