[squid-users] Re: should squid crash when ulimit reached?

This question belongs on squid-users, not squid-dev.

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, joaoBR wrote:

> I get this on freebsd 4.11, 5.2.1 and 5.4 and squid2.5-10 and greater
>
> Happens when the hardcoded mxdsize of 512MB is reached then the
> xmalloc: unable message appears and squid crashes. Squid do not use
> any swap it simply crashes and it does not matter how much RAM the
> machine may have.
>
> Soon I set maxdsiz to any value higher the 512 squid do not crash
> anymore and start using swap when not enough RAM available.
>
> So I wonder what is reason and like to ask if you have some ideas
> about this.

See the Squid FAQ, both the entry on the error message quoted and the
chapter on how Squid uses memory.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Aug 11 2005 - 13:30:31 MDT