Hello, I´m running squid 2.5 STABLE 11 on DELL Poweredge 800 - Kernel 2.6.16-13 64bits EMT64 - 1 HD SCSI 10.000 rpm 73gb for cache_dir (splited in two partitions) with configure line: --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/squid --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc/squid --enable-poll --enable-snmp --enable-removal-policies=heap,lru --enable-storeio=aufs,coss,diskd,null,ufs --enable-ssl --with-openssl=/usr/kerberos --enable-linux-netfilter --with-pthreads --enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,unix_group --with-winbind-auth-challenge --enable-useragent-log --enable-referer-log --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost --disable-ident-lookups --enable-truncate --enable-underscores --datadir=/usr/share --with-maxfd=4096 --enable-async-io --enable-dlmalloc i´m running squid with heap replacement policies (LFUDA for cache and GDSF for memory) cache_mem 384 MB maximum_object_size 50 MB minimum_object_size 0 KB maximum_object_size_in_memory 128 KB cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid1 30720 32 512 cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid2 30720 32 512 memory_pools off When squid process reaches +- 1270000 of VSZ. and +- 900MB of RSS it´s die with this message: 2006/10/09 00:02:06| storeDirClean: /var/spool/squid2/00/1CF: (12) Cannot allocate memory FATAL: xcalloc: Unable to allocate 1 blocks of 4112 bytes! Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE11): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 1353.557 seconds = 536.278 user + 817.279 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 2 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 1041484 KB Ordinary blocks: 1039844 KB 551 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 36624 KB 7 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 1639 KB Total in use: 1076468 KB 103% Total free: 1639 KB 0% 2006/10/09 00:02:07| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2006/10/09 00:02:07| WARNING: Closing open FD 15 squid receives +- 30 req/s, and 200 users simultaneous... the server has 2.5 G of memory.. the consumption of memory without squid is about 600 MB.. i tried to compile squid with --disable-dlmalloc but squid crash more "faster"... (2 in 2 hours).. now, ps auwx show USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND squid 903 2.8 38.2 1218264 981428 ? Sl 00:02 17:20 (squid) -D -s on the last week this server was with 1GB of ram... and occur the same error.. i install more 1.5GB of ram.. but.. the problem continues.. sysctl kernel parms: kernel.msgmnb = 16384 kernel.msgmni = 64 kernel.msgmax = 8192 fs.file-max = 65534 kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmmni = 4096 somebody can say me what´s happening ? Regards !!! Alexandre J . Correa . Onda Internet www.ondainternet.com.br