My Squid isn't build with 64-bit support. My RedHat Linux support up to 4GB memory per process. I tested it on a short test program which tries to allocate memory until he fails and only after 4GB allocation I fail to continue allocation. thanks Itzcak On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Itzcak Pechtalt wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > Is your squid built with 64-bit support and --with-large-files to support >>2GB total memory allocation? > > Amos > -- > Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE9 >