Denis, That's a fair comment but it doesn't look as if it's running out of memory. It's like as if the OS did not want to release more memory for squid or something. But just for information that's top output. last pid: 21404; load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 up 36+23:31:29 12:11:02 55 processes: 1 running, 54 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.2% system, 7.8% interrupt, 91.1% idle Mem: 515M Active, 1106M Inact, 189M Wired, 68M Cache, 112M Buf, 125M Free Swap: 5120M Total, 5120M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 18208 squid 96 0 344M 343M select 1:59 0.00% 0.00% squid 405 root 96 0 2964K 1424K select 0:41 0.00% 0.00% ntpd 433 root 96 0 3472K 2256K select 0:28 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 450 root 8 0 1364K 928K nanslp 0:07 0.00% 0.00% cron 298 root 96 0 1324K 804K select 0:03 0.00% 0.00% syslogd 378 root 96 0 1244K 684K select 0:02 0.00% 0.00% usbd 437 root 20 0 2964K 1428K pause 0:02 0.00% 0.00% ntpd 438 smmsp 20 0 3356K 2032K pause 0:01 0.00% 0.00% sendmail 18229 squid -8 0 1188K 676K piperd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% unlinkd 21358 squid 4 0 2852K 1616K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% suid_ldap_group 21391 root 96 0 2392K 1576K RUN 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top 21357 squid 4 0 2752K 1404K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid_ldap_auth 21367 squid 4 0 2748K 1400K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid_ldap_group 21362 squid 4 0 2748K 1400K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid_ldap_group 21350 squid 4 0 2752K 1404K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid_ldap_auth 21348 squid 4 0 2856K 1600K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid_ldap_auth 21364 squid 4 0 2748K 1400K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid_ldap_group 21356 squid 4 0 2752K 1404K sbwait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% squid_ldap_auth Tomas -- tp -----Original Message----- From: Denis Vlasenko [mailto:vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 18 November 2005 11:42 To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Tomas Palfi Subject: Re: FATAL: xcalloc On Friday 18 November 2005 12:54, Tomas Palfi wrote: > To all, > > Every so often, almost daily, I get this message in logs and squid > reloads. > > FATAL: xcalloc: Unable to allocate 1 blocks of 4108 bytes! > > Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE10): Terminated abnormally. > CPU Usage: 167.029 seconds = 122.739 user + 44.290 sys > Maximum Resident Size: 526264 KB > Page faults with physical i/o: 0 > > I have checked almost all references to this problem and some of them > are pointing to not enough memory on the server, which is not my case as > I have plenty of that. What puzzles me is the amount of memory being > allocated to a squid process by FreeBSD. I am running several other > caches without any such problems, however, this one is the biggest > cache. You did not actually show any numbers on amount of used memory. top etc... -- vda _______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned by Messagelabs _______________________________________________________________________ PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail is private and confidential. If you have, or suspect you have received this message in error please notify the sender as soon as possible and remove from your system. You may not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Thank you for your co-operation. Please note that whilst best efforts are made, neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan the email and attachments (if any). This e-mail has been automatically scanned for viruses by MessageLabs.
