Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

From: Raymond A. Meijer <rmeijer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:01:14 +0300

On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:52, Rodrigo A B Freire wrote:

> Not to mention that when a squid -k rotate is issued (or a -k
> reconfigure), the process may grow up to 2x the amount of its size
> for a few seconds... If you don't have swap enough to buffer this
> grow, the proxy will die miserabily out of memory with a FATAL:
> xmalloc: Unable to allocate xxx bytes.

Good point...but I think I saw it recommended somewhere? Henrik?

Something about disabling swap and making sure Squid fits into the
available memory...

You are right though.

Ray
Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 05:01:19 MDT

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