On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 09:08:54AM -0700, Greywolf wrote:
> 
> 2.  D'ya think this more accurately reflects on the engineering of
>     squid?  It sounds like either you're maintaining an in-core Cache
>     Of Unusual Size, or there's a SERIOUS leak and/or abuse of
>     available memory.
> 

Any userland program that is able to produce a kernel panic mean there
is a kernel bug - no ifs no buts - userland must not be able to crash
the kernel no matter what.

FWIW squid uses a lot of memory, not only does it cache "hot" objects
in memory but has a lot of memory tied up in managing where objects
are on disk.  Given that squid is trying to accelerate web accesses
using large slabs of memory to increase speed is a not unreasonable
thing to do.

-- 
Brett Lymn