Re: BSDI / xmalloc - the FAQ fix doesn't fix it for me - help!

I had a similat problem, my fix was as root:

sysctl -w vm.maxdsize=134217728
limit datasize 128000000

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> From: Simon Rainey <srainey@rmplc.net>
> To: squid-users@nlanr.net
> Subject: BSDI / xmalloc - the FAQ fix doesn't fix it for me - help!
> Date: Thursday, 18 September 1997 21:04
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Squid 1.NOVM.15 under BSDI 2.1 on a PentiumPro platform with
> 128MB RAM and an 8GB spool. The cache_swap setting is 6800.
>
> When the cache reaches around 2.4GB I start getting
>
> xmalloc: Unable to allocate 4096 bytes!
> xcalloc: Unable to allocate 1 blocks of 248 bytes!
>
> type messages. This is after I've added the lines
>
> options "DFLDSIZ=67108864"
> options "MAXDSIZ=134217728"
>
> to my kernel config file and rebuilt the kernel / rebooted the server.
>
> At the point that Squid throws up the xmalloc errors it is using around
33M
> of RAM according to top, and there is 68M of free memory.
>
> The kernel config file also contains these lines
>
> # options "KMEMSIZE=\(16*1024*1024\)"
> # options "DFLSSIZ=\(4*1024*1024\)"
>
> which are commented out. What do these control and should I uncomment
them?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Simon.
>
Received on Thu Sep 18 1997 - 08:11:30 MDT