Re: Hrm.. weird error

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, David Luyer wrote:

> > Hello,
> >
> > Our squid process has been exiting and then restarting quite a bit
> > lately.. after checking the logs I came up with this.. anyone know what
> > causes this?
>
> I guess the subscribe info for the squid-users list isn't quite
> explicit enough. Read the FAQ, it answers your question and the
> other million people who've asked this question.
>
> http://squid.nlanr.net/FAQ/FAQ-10.html#ss10.5

http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-10.html#ss10.5
                       ^^^^^

The message "FATAL: malloc: Unable to allocate 4096 blocks of 1
bytes!"

On a Pentium Pro with 256 mb of ram using FreeBSD 2.2.5 i was getting the
above message every 5 to 10 mins..

>>>is seen when Squid can't allocate more memory, and on most operating
>>>systems (inclusive BSD) there are only two possible reasons:

>>>The machine is out of swap
>>>The max data segment size is reached

On FreeBSD, the above problem can be duplicated by compiling a kernel with
options SYSVSHM

however neither of the above possible causes were
the reason behind it. So despite reading the FAQ my problem was still not
answered.
 

> Does the subscribe info have something like "make sure you read
> http://squid.nlanr.net/FAQ/FAQ-10.html#ss10 completely before asking
> any questions about running squid" or something like that?
>

If the FAQ does not answer our question, are we supposed to keep our mouth
shut to avoid irritating someone who does not feel like answering a
question

> David.
>
> > Apr 21 04:13:07 proxy Apr 21 04:13:07squid[: xmalloc: Unable to allocate
> > 4096 bytes!
> [...]
>
Received on Tue Apr 21 1998 - 00:51:25 MDT