squid-3.4.8_1 leaking memory

[Victor Sudakov]

Dennis Glatting wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > squid-3.4.8_1 seems to be leaking memory heavily. Its SIZE and RES are
> > > > growing several MB per minute until eventually swapping begins.
> > > > 
> > > > Is anyone using it? Have you encountered this problem?
> > > > 
> > > > The relevant entries in squid.conf are:
> > > > 
> > > > cache_mem 128 MB
> > > > cache_dir ufs /webcache/cache 512 16 256
> > > > memory_pools off # neither "on" nor "off" have any effect on leaking.
> > > > 
> > > > As you see, the memory requirements should be rather modest.
> > > > 
> > > > Running on 8.4-RELEASE-p16 i386.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > The Squid Cache web site DOES NOT list 3.4.8 as the stable release,
> > > rather 3.4.7 is listed as the stable release. 
> > 
> > Well, what is 3.4.8 doing in the ports collection then? Someone was
> > too quick to adopt it as www/squid ?
> > 
> 
> There was a long thread last week(?). I read half the messages when I
> got home when it seemed things were in good hands. I'm sure there was
> good reason.
> 
> I am running 3.4.7 (no change sets) on four servers without problems
> however these are lower use servers (application proxies, AV proxies,
> etc -- with exceptions, generally no longer user proxies). I haven't
> noticed a problem but that does not mean there isn't one. Also, they
> just went through a security patch cycle and were booted, so I don't
> have useful data.
> 
> 
> > > There are also 18 change
> > > sets listed for 3.4.7 and three for 3.4.8.
> > 
> > Is there a quick and easy way to to downgrade www/squid to 3.4.7?
> > 
> > Tonight I'll be trying to replace it with www/squid33 anyway.
> > 
> 
> 3.3 is EoL or near EoL.

All right, what other options do I have? Just restart the leaky
3.4.8_1 every hour and hope for a future fix?

Besides, I have found that libexec/squid/ntlm_smb_lm_auth is seriously
broken. It did work fine in squid27 (was called ntlm_auth at that
time) but now it just asks infinitely for the users's domain
credentials and never permits the user.

In fact, if I use the squid27 ntlm_auth binary with 3.4.8,
authentication works again.

In short, what do I do?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru