Re: Memory blowout

>This has only happened once, but I thought it might be worth mentioning.
>
>Last night my squid process grew out of control until the lack of swap
>space killed it off. I have no idea why it would do this. The only
>symptom I could see in the logs were these reports:
>
>97/08/25 00:10:00| WARNING: Exceeded 'cache_mem' size (265184K > 143360K)
>97/08/25 00:10:00| Perhaps you should increase cache_mem?

hello,

i got the same problem, once a month.
we use linux 2.0.29, squid 1.1.9 with 600mb free diskspace for squid-cache.

97/08/23 00:15:47| WARNING: Exceeded 'cache_mem' size (31856K > 16384K)
97/08/23 00:15:47| Perhaps you should increase cache_mem?
97/08/23 00:15:47| storeGetMemSpace stats:
97/08/23 00:15:47| 0 objects locked in memory
97/08/23 00:15:47| 0 LRU candidates
97/08/23 00:15:47| 0 were purged
97/08/23 00:15:47| 0 were released
FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 4096 bytes!

Squid Cache (Version 1.1.9): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: user 1570 sys 2230
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 391337
97/08/23 00:16:27| storeWriteCleanLog: Starting...
97/08/23 00:16:45| 4096 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:17:02| 8192 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:17:19| 12288 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:17:37| 16384 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:17:55| 20480 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:18:15| 24576 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:18:41| 28672 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:19:09| 32768 lines written so far.
97/08/23 00:19:13| Finished. Wrote 33309 lines.
97/08/23 00:19:13| Took 166 seconds ( 200.7 lines/sec).

thanx for ideas,
mike

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Received on Mon Aug 25 1997 - 01:40:28 MDT