Squid 3.1.4 consumes much memory over the time

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Issue

Squid proxy starts to consume large amounts of memory over the time, affecting the system performance (system enters in OutOfMemory state, and swapping process starts, causing large I/O).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • Squid 3.1.4

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