[squid-users] leaking memory in squid 3.4.8 and 3.4.7.

[Eliezer Croitoru]

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About the memory page size:
getconf PAGESIZE
getconf PAGE_SIZE

One of the above should provide the basic information.

Waiting for some more info.

Eliezer

On 09/30/2014 04:10 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> The unusual one you should expect to be first is mem_node. Which
> is the name for a 4KB chunk of cache_mem and in-transit objects.
> There is some bytes of meta data making it slightly bigger than
> 4KB, which on some OS means the memory page uses 8KB per object
> without telling Squid. This can be a hidden gotcha and why Squid
> sometimes uses slightly over 2x what the mem_node column says is
> allocated to cache_mem. :-(
> 
> 
>>> 
>>>>> and "top -n 1 -b|egrep "proxy|squid|PID"" Which should give
>>>>> a nice output of the squid process memory consumption.
> Be careful noting which column is resident memory and which is
> virtual memory in that output. Each helper spawned is allocated
> virtual memory equal to the total resident size of its squid parent
> process (including cache_mem and any shared memory usage) at the
> time of its spawning. It can show very huge numbers even while
> Squid goes nowhere near using any of it.
> 
> HTH Amos

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