WG: squid dying: xmalloc

this is what ulimit -aH gevies me....

core file size (blocks) 0
data seg size (kbytes) unlimited
file size (blocks) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes) unlimited
open files 3000
pipe size (512 bytes) 8
stack size (kbytes) unlimited
cpu time (seconds) unlimited
max user processes 256
virtual memory (kbytes) unlimited

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   Lars Oeschey - Saturn Media Gesellschaft fuer
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mailto:oeschey@media-saturn.com

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Von: B. Richardson [mailto:rabtter@aye.net]
Gesendet am: Montag, 20. Juli 1998 15:50
An: Oeschey, Lars
Cc: 'squid-users@ircache.net'
Betreff: Re: squid dying: xmalloc

Maybe a system imposed limit on process data/stack size (via kernel
parameter or ulimit)? If you increase cache_mem (to about half of
physical memory) does it die at about the same size but much sooner?

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Barrett Richardson rabtter@orion.aye.net

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Oeschey, Lars wrote:

> Hi,
>
> recently my squid died with this error:
>
> Fatal: xmalloc: unable to allocate 65535 bytes
>
> the following lines were in cache.log:
> CPU usage: user 12732 sys 18011
> Maximum resident size 0kb
> page faults with physical i/o 652561
> memory usage for squid via mallinfo
> total space in arena: 216201
> ordinary blocks: 197335
> small blocks: 0k
> holding blocks: 1304k
> free small blocks: 0k
> free ordinary blocks: 18865k
> total in use: 198639k 92%
> total free: 18865k 9%
>
> I can´t make anything of this, but i think squid runs out of memory,
but
> why?
>
> Lars
>
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Received on Wed Jul 22 1998 - 11:56:58 MDT