Hi. This morning squid 2.6s4, running on Slackware Linux 11.0 with 2.6.18.1 kernel, has crashed after logging this entries: 2006/10/26 04:40:12| logfileRotate: /var/spool/squid/logs/access.log 2006/10/26 04:40:12| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 50 'ntlm_auth' processes 2006/10/26 04:40:12| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory 2006/10/26 04:40:12| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/libexec/squid/ntlm_auth' process. 2006/10/26 04:40:12| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory ... 2006/10/26 04:40:22| Ready to serve requests. 2006/10/26 08:02:54| helperStatefulGetServer: No running servers!. 2006/10/26 08:02:54| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2006/10/26 08:02:54| WARNING: Closing open FD 7 2006/10/26 08:02:54| commSetEvents: epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL): failed on fd=7: (1) Operation not permitted 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 65536 entries written so far. 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 131072 entries written so far. 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 196608 entries written so far. 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 262144 entries written so far. 2006/10/26 08:02:54| Finished. Wrote 317254 entries. 2006/10/26 08:02:54| Took 0.2 seconds (1949165.7 entries/sec). FATAL: Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests (1 on 0) Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally. This machine has 1GB ram + ~800 MB swap cache_mem set to 768 MB Clues?
Start setting 'cache_mem' to default; please read the meaning of this param in squid.conf.default >carefully< M.