Re: [squid-users] CPU spikes, heap fragmentation, memory_pools_limit question

2009-03-19 Thread Justin Lintz
Ben, I ran into the same issue as well.  This was solved by using google's tcmalloc http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/.  You can either link statically against it or load it dynamically as a drop in replacement for malloc.  Our cpu usage dropped significantly after it was installed. -

[squid-users] CPU spikes, heap fragmentation, memory_pools_limit question

2009-03-18 Thread Ben Drees
Hi, I'm running Squid 2.6STABLE21 as a reverse proxy (migration to 2.7STABLE6 in progress). After Squid has been up for a day or two handling about 500 (mostly cacheable) requests per second, we start to see CPU spikes reaching 100% and response times getting longer. It usually recovers on

Re: [squid-users] CPU spikes, heap fragmentation, memory_pools_limit question

2009-03-18 Thread Ben Drees
Ben Drees wrote: After Squid has been up for a day or two handling about 500 (mostly cacheable) requests per second, we start to see CPU spikes reaching 100% and response times getting longer. It usually recovers on its own, but we sometimes resort to restarting it, which always fixes the