Re: squid die (malloc error) on AIX 4.2.1

Hi, LO
        Squid must be configure to use only 1/3 of memory available on your
machine. (if you are running only squid) It's writing in some files who
go with squid.

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LO PUI YU wrote:
> 
> Dear Squid Admins,
> 
>         We are setup a squid (1.1.14) on powerpc-ibm-aix4.2.1, and we used
> native AIX C compiler to make the execute program. Sometime the squid will
> die for malloc error, but we have 327 Mbyte memory. After read the faq
> (http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ.html), we know that we have addressed
> the memory configure on OS level, can anyone kindly teach me that how to
> tune up the parameters on AIX 4.2.1 ?
> 
> Here is the configure we currently defined :
> 
> Hardware :
>         AIX 4.2.1
>         21.6 G cache space
>         memory - 327 M
> 
> Software :
> 
> For Squid config :
>         Squid 1.1.14
>         cache_mem 280 <-- just place safe
>         cache_swap 21 G
> 
> For AIX OS config :
>   Maximum number of PROCESSES allowed per user       [240]
>   Maximum number of pages in block I/O BUFFER CACHE  [20]
>   Maximum Kbytes of real memory allowed for MBUFS    [0]
>   HIGH water mark for pending write I/Os per file    [0]
>   LOW water mark for pending write I/Os per file     [0]
>   Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes          327680
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Lopy
> Hong Kong Baptist University