Re: FATAL: Failed to fork() for ftpget.

On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> And at this time, your Squid process is huge (it wasn't at the
> beginning). And fork has to copy it, and you do not have enough space in
> virtual memory. (I had the problem with the dnsservers.)
 we have 64 MB virtual memory ans 128 MB swap-space
>
> Increase virtual memory.
do you mean increase the 64 MB or the squid-option: #cache_mem 8

after the problem happened yesterday, i changed to cache_mem 16B

> Add swap space.
we have 128 MB, how can i add swap ?

> Or try to decrease Squid's usage
> of memory (this is harder, specially if you want it to be fast). What is
> your Squid's size ("ps aux|grep squid")

www.sns-felb.debis.de# ps -el|grep squi
 8 S 0 696 1 15 78 20 f5fc2330 14295 f5cdf976 ? 28:01 squid
www.sns-felb.debis.de# ps -el|head -1
 F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD

this means, 14295 pages a 4k --> 58552 k

> and your swap use (highly
> system-dependent, "swapon -s" on OSF1, "free" on Linux)?

SOLARIS 2.5.1:
www.sns-felb.debis.de# swap -s
total: 65840k bytes allocated + 3636k reserved = 69476k used, 107260k
available

any ideas ?

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