Hello
i have used all the internet resources available and I still can't
find a definitive solution to this problem.
we have a squid running on a solaris 10 server. everything run
smoothly except that the process size grows constantly and it reaches
4GB yesterday after which the process crashed; this is the output from
the log:
FATAL: xcalloc: Unable to allocate 1 blocks of 4194304 bytes!
Squid Cache (Version 3.0.STABLE20): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 91594.216 seconds = 57864.539 user + 33729.677 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
total space in arena: -157909 KB
Ordinary blocks: 691840 KB 531392 blks
Small blocks: 4460 KB 184700 blks
Holding blocks: 50 KB 1847 blks
Free Small blocks: 696 KB
Free Ordinary blocks: -854957 KB
Total in use: 696351 KB -440%
Total free: -854260 KB 541%
every limit on the solaris has been set to ulimited :
ulimit -aH
core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
open files (-n) 65536
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 10
stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 16357
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
at the moment of the problem there was still plenty of swap left. so
it's nto a problem of swap.
the OS is a 64bit operating system but the squid is not compiled in
64bits, do you think that if that i recompile the squid in 64 bit the
problem will be solved or will it be reported for later because
there's a a memory leak that the process memory consumption and size
grow without bounds.
every night there's a rotation of the logs with squi -f squid.conf -k rotate,
does this cause the process to become so big?
i am eagestly looking forward for your help
thank you in advance
MarioG
