Re: [squid-users] Squid crashing with "FATAL: xcalloc..." in cache.log

From: lawrence wang <levity@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:18:03 -0400

that reminds me -- i'm using --enable-dlmalloc, Doug Lea's malloc lib.
could that be the issue?

On 4/21/06, Mark Elsen <mark.elsen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've seen the answer to this in the FAQ. However,
> >
> > 1) I am definitely not running out of swap, and
> > 2) "ulimit -HSd" reports that the max segment size is set to unlimited
> > by default.
> >
> > I am seeing this behavior consistently on a number of boxes when they
> > get to a little over 1GB of resident memory usage. The amount of
> > physical RAM on the boxes ranges from 4-8GB.
> >
> > The boxes are all running Fedora Core 4. I haven't been able to find
> > much documentation on how to find what the max segment size is for a
> > given running process, i.e. whether "unlimited" really means unlimited
> > or whether there might be a hard cap imposed elsewhere. Any pointers?
> > Or are there any known issues with Squid using >1GB of memory?
> >
>
> - Checkout :
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200310/0297.html
>
> It contains an example C program to check, how much memory you can
> allocate on your system.
>
> Squid configure also has this option :
>
> --enable-xmalloc-statistics
> Show malloc statistics in status page
>
> This may give additional info.
>
> M.
>
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