Re: [squid-users] xmalloc and out of memory errors in messages log

 --- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> wrote: >
How large is your Squid process after it has rebuilt
> the cache index?

Once it rebuilt the cache index for all the caching
partitions, it immediately restart with the xmalloc
error as seen from cache.log.

>
> How large is the process shortly before it dies?

900M

>
> total in use from mallinfo should be nearly 100%
> normally.. if it is much
> less then the malloc library is not working well for
> Squid as it then is
> keeping a lot more memory allocated from the OS than
> Squid is using.

Oh I see. Thanks.

>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Tay Teck Wee wrote:
>
> > Can anyone help? Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Wolf
> >
> > --- Tay Teck Wee <wolfpacks01@yahoo.com.sg>
> wrote: >
> > --- Robert Collins <robertc@squid-cache.org>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:17, Tay Teck Wee wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > The Total Accounted Memory (seen from
> cachemgr)
> > > > always
> > > > > shows about 60-70% of the size of the squid
> > > > process,
> > > > > i.e. when squid process is at 500M, Total
> > > > Accounted
> > > > > Memory is about 350M. This ratio is
> maintained
> > > > > throughout the squid process lifetime.
> > > > >
> > > > > One thing peculiar is that under Memory
> usage
> > > for
> > > > > squid via mallinfo(): the total in use is
> always
> > > > 100%.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > From Memory Utilization->In Use->KB column,
> the
> > > > top 3
> > > > > are:
> > > > > StoreEntry 356131
> > > > > MD5 digest 118711
> > > > > mem_node 65677
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Well you've got 356MB of StoreEntries - cache
> > > index
> > > > elements. How much
> > > > mem cache and disk cache do you ahve in your
> > > > configuration?
> > >
> > > cache_mem 64 MB
> > > cache_dir aufs /cdata1 16000 36 256
> > > cache_dir aufs /cdata2 16000 36 256
> > > cache_dir aufs /cdata3 16000 36 256
> > >
> > > BTW the physical RAM is 2G.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Rob
> > > >
> > > >
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Received on Thu Oct 09 2003 - 23:26:26 MDT