Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:10:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Squid & heavy swapping Message-ID: <19990826011038.6BDFD153B5@hub.freebsd.org>
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A few months ago I installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 (I had the CDs handy), Squid 1.1, and the ISC-DHCP server that comes in the 2.2.5 ports collection in order to improve one of the buildings in my job's WAN. The staff loved it. Then I decided to switch it over to 3.2-RELEASE and reconfigure the routers and the firewalling rules in order to make the proxying transparent. So I reformated the drive and installed from scratch. Its now FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, Squid 2.1, and assorted other software. Now to the problem... It seems that Squid (both 2.1 from the ports and 2.2 from ftp.freebsd.org) will continue to use more and more RAM and VM as time passes. This happens even if no one visits any web pages. Worse still, the performance degrades to the point of taking well more than 5 or 10 minutes to return a web page to the client if Squid is left running for a few days. If I had to guess, I'd say that this is because it swaps a *lot* even when Squid isn't retrieving any web pages. Does anyone know what I can do to make this work better? I can't upgrade the RAM, unfortunately. However, the same amount of RAM was fine when I used the older software (2.2.5-RELEASE and 1.1 (not even the NOVM version)). Is there something that I'm over looking? A squid.conf setting that I should make, perhaps? Thanks in advance, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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