Squid memory leaks in -stable using libc malloc

From: Anders Nordby (anders_at_fix.no)
Date: 09/06/03

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    Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 16:11:08 +0200
To: stable@FreeBSD.org

    Hi,

    Using Squid with libc's malloc, I'm seeing a big difference between what
    top reports as memory used for the squid process (SIZE) and what Squid's
    cache manager reports that Squid has allocated (total KB allocated in
    the memory utilization page). Squid is using around twice as much memory
    as expected, and seems to grow without bounds (I run out of memory every
    now and then). I've tried configuring malloc.conf with H (as suggested
    by tjr), but it didn't help.

    Using Squid with dlmalloc however (--enable-dlmalloc), seems to stop the
    memory leaks. For my own purposes, I'll be using dlmalloc from now
    unless someone has other suggestions.

    For the record, I'm using 4.8-RELEASE and Squid 2.5.STABLE3 (recently
    installed from ports with all the patches there). I have Squid servers
    with 4 GB RAM, and cache_mem is set to 2 GB currently.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Anders.
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