High Memory Usage pfsense 1.2.3-RELEASE

[NeophyteHeaven]

Im using kinda high spec server
Dell R300 with 4GB Memory, 160GB (raid1), but after few days used, when i see at system information overview, the memory usage is kinda high for 4GB memory..i taught pfsense can run on low end spec pc. issit because of my squid?

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:58 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Expires: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:58 GMT
X-Cache: MISS from gateway
Via: 1.0 gateway:3128 (Lusca/LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11)
Connection: close

Squid Object Cache: Version LUSCA_HEAD r14560 patched by chudy r11
Start Time:     Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:52:53 GMT
Current Time:   Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:07:58 GMT
Connection information for squid:
       Number of clients accessing cache:      65
       Number of HTTP requests received:       245577
       Number of ICP messages received:        0
       Number of ICP messages sent:    0
       Number of queued ICP replies:   0
       Request failure ratio:   0.00
       Average HTTP requests per minute since start:   84.8
       Average ICP messages per minute since start:    0.0
       Select loop called: 26193428 times, 6.632 ms avg
Cache information for squid:
       Request Hit Ratios:     5min: 22.2%, 60min: 20.9%
       Byte Hit Ratios:        5min: 0.7%, 60min: 17.6%
       Request Memory Hit Ratios:      5min: 100.0%, 60min: 66.4%
       Request Disk Hit Ratios:        5min: 0.0%, 60min: 26.1%
       Storage Swap size:      3843976 KB
       Storage Mem size:       1046812 KB
       Mean Object Size:       18.86 KB
       Requests given to unlinkd:      0
Median Service Times (seconds)  5 min    60 min:
       HTTP Requests (All):   0.17711  0.33943
       Cache Misses:          0.61549  0.46965
       Cache Hits:            0.00000  0.00091
       Near Hits:             0.00000  0.13498
       Not-Modified Replies:  0.00000  0.00000
       DNS Lookups:           0.00000  0.00000
       ICP Queries:           0.00000  0.00000
Resource usage for squid:
       UP Time:        173704.610 seconds
       CPU Time:       1009.422 seconds
       CPU Usage:      0.58%
       CPU Usage, 5 minute avg:        0.10%
       CPU Usage, 60 minute avg:       0.43%
       Process Data Segment Size via sbrk(): 0 KB
       Maximum Resident Size: 2278184 KB
       Page faults with physical i/o: 11
Memory accounted for:
       Total accounted:       1164615 KB
       memPoolAlloc calls: 51085955
       memPoolFree calls: 47914458
File descriptor usage for squid:
       Maximum number of file descriptors:   11095
       Largest file desc currently in use:     21
       Number of file desc currently in use:   18
       Files queued for open:                   0
       Available number of file descriptors: 11077
       Reserved number of file descriptors:   100
       Store Disk files open:                   0
       IO loop method:                     kqueue
Internal Data Structures:
       205790 StoreEntries
       110132 StoreEntries with MemObjects
       110125 Hot Object Cache Items
       203793 on-disk objects

service that i installed
1. Denyhosts
2. Squid (lusca-cache)
3. Squid Guard
4. bandwidthd
5. snort
6. cron
7. dnsmasq
8. ntpd

[Guest]

Squid, SquidGuard and Snort are all major resource pigs.

[NeophyteHeaven]

so i just leave it ???
i need to restart it every 3 days if like that

[Guest]

Either add more memory or stop using all those packages.

[NeophyteHeaven]

im on 4Gb memory already..and it just used by <100 user..soon it will be more

[focalguy]

I'm not experienced with those packages but it seems I heard you can tweak the configurations on Squid and maybe other packages to use less memory but by default they will just keep eating up resources. Maybe a search for configurations of Squid would be helpful.