[squid-users] ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory

From: Marco Berizzi <pupilla@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:22:47 +0200

Hi.
This morning squid 2.6s4, running on Slackware Linux 11.0
with 2.6.18.1 kernel, has crashed after logging this entries:

2006/10/26 04:40:12| logfileRotate: /var/spool/squid/logs/access.log
2006/10/26 04:40:12| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 50 'ntlm_auth'
processes
2006/10/26 04:40:12| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory
2006/10/26 04:40:12| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/libexec/squid/ntlm_auth'
process.
2006/10/26 04:40:12| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory
...
2006/10/26 04:40:22| Ready to serve requests.
2006/10/26 08:02:54| helperStatefulGetServer: No running servers!.
2006/10/26 08:02:54| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
2006/10/26 08:02:54| WARNING: Closing open FD 7
2006/10/26 08:02:54| commSetEvents: epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL): failed on
fd=7: (1) Operation not permitted
2006/10/26 08:02:54| 65536 entries written so far.
2006/10/26 08:02:54| 131072 entries written so far.
2006/10/26 08:02:54| 196608 entries written so far.
2006/10/26 08:02:54| 262144 entries written so far.
2006/10/26 08:02:54| Finished. Wrote 317254 entries.
2006/10/26 08:02:54| Took 0.2 seconds (1949165.7 entries/sec).
FATAL: Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests (1 on 0)
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.

This machine has 1GB ram + ~800 MB swap
cache_mem set to 768 MB

Clues?

PS: Only openswan and squid are running on this box

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