Re: [squid-users] Squid unreachable every hour and 6 minutes.

Robert Borkowski wrote:
> Gix, Lilian (CI/OSR) * wrote:
>
>> The server has 1G of RAM (only 100M for squid)
>>
>
> 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Max Mem size: 102400 KB
> ^^^^^^
> I asked about memory because of this line...
>
> Two possibilities
> 1) The kernel is killing off squid because there's no VM left. What's in
> /proc/meminfo ?
> 2) There's a process ulimit that squid hits and it gets killed off that
> way. Check for ulimit
> in /etc/profile or the squid startup script
>
> In either case, you need to lower the amount of memory used by squid to
> below whatever the limit is.
>
> I was hoping for some 'out of memory', or 'OOM killer', or 'zero order
> allocation' errors in the dmesg output.
> If they're not there then the second (ulimit) possibility is most likely.
>

Heh. Haven't had enough coffee this morning. I read that as 1GB, not 100MB.
My bad. Still worth checking out the swap setup and ulimits though.

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Robert Borkowski