Re: Squid crashing problem squid-1.1.3 BSDI 2.1

G'day!

Roch Pageau wrote:
>
> FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 4096 bytes!
>
> Squid Cache (Version 1.1.3): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: user 59 sys 52
> Memory Usage: rss 0 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 0
> 97/02/11 20:18:54| storeWriteCleanLog: Starting...
>
>
> If someone could tell me how to resolve this xmalloc problem, it would be
> great its really driving me nuts.

Your Squid has attempted to allocate more memory than it is allowed or that is
avaliable. Try 1.1.6 or lower cache_mem in squid.conf.

Martin Boening wrote:
>
> As a matter of fact I've tweaked 4 user oriented limits in RunCache:
> ulimit -c 0 # 0-size core (important as our squid cache grows to up to
> # 200 MB)
> ulimit -d unlimited
> ulimit -s unlimited
> ulimit -v unlimited

If you are running Squid-1.1.6 there should be no need to do this, as Squid
uses setrlimit() to overcome this problem.

Later
Ed

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