Hi, I have Squid 2.6 running on RedHat Linux with 8 GB memory, and configured according to Squid wiki recomendations in http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory#head-09818ad4cb8a1dfea1f51688c41bdf4b79a69991 However, it crashs every couple of hours with "FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate xxx bytes!" message I wonder if I made something bad in configuration or it's a memory leak problem. Any help will be appreciate Following configuration and error details: Squid version 2.6 STABLE 12 cache_dir size 100GB cache_mem size 1.995 GB memory_pools_limit 100 MB So 2 GB for cacheMem and 100 * 10MB(per 1G disk in above wiki) is 3GB. In addition there are additional 5 MB for other system use, it should be enogh. My Linux kernel support 4G memory space per process(tested), so the problem is not in process memory limit. I found in bugzilla a memory leak bug related to http_accept deny acl rule, but my cache is configured with "http_access alow all" (it's a private network and there are no security issues). Some prints from cache.log 2008/09/21 22:40:31| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923 objects 2008/09/21 22:40:31| Target number of buckets: 393846 2008/09/21 22:40:31| Using 524288 Store buckets 2008/09/21 22:40:31| Max Mem size: 1997824 KB 2008/09/21 22:40:31| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB 2008/09/21 22:43:12| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2008/09/21 22:43:12| 14085510 Entries scanned 2008/09/21 22:43:12| 14084558 Objects loaded. 2008/09/21 22:43:12| 201 Duplicate URLs purged. 2008/09/21 22:43:12| 751 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2008/09/21 22:43:12| Took 161.5 seconds (87200.4 objects/sec). 2008/09/21 22:43:17| Completed Validation Procedure 2008/09/21 22:43:17| Validated 14084555 Entries 2008/09/21 22:43:17| store_swap_size = 100657756k FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 65535 bytes! Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE12-20070429): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 5939.813 seconds = 2462.689 user + 3477.124 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 1 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: -117092 KB Ordinary blocks: -129142 KB 286436 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 83308 KB 11 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 12049 KB Total in use: -45834 KB 136% Total free: 12049 KB -35% thanks Itzcak
