Re: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 4096 bytes!

Similarly I have got this problem on linux machine.
I have pentium 166Mhz 64Mb machine.(using 1200 cache_swap)
using (cache_mem 16). Yestderday my squid also terminated abnormally with
same message.
Please help me in this respect.
regards

On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Bill Wichers wrote:

> What OS are you running? If you're running BSDI, try lowering the
> cache_mem value a LOT and then lowering the high and low cache_mem
> watermakrs. I use about 30% for low and 43% for high. Works for me :-)
>
> Of course I found a better solution: I switched my caches to linux...
> Squid seems to run a lot better on Linux than on BSDI.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Roch Pageau wrote:
>
> > Still having this problem after uncommenting the following lines and
> > rebuilding the kernel:
> >
> > # support for large routing tables, e.g. gated with full Internet routing:
> > options "KMEMSIZE=\(16*1024*1024\)"
> > options "DFLDSIZ=\(32*1024*1024\)"
> > options "DFLSSIZ=\(4*1024*1024\)"
> >
> > and installing 1.1.19
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Roch
> >
> > 98/01/01 19:19:03| 49152 Lines read so far.
> > 98/01/01 19:20:42| 53248 Lines read so far.
> > FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 4096 bytes!
> >
> > Squid Cache (Version 1.1.19): Terminated abnormally.
> > CPU Usage: user 11 sys 33
> > Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
> > Page faults with physical i/o: 0
> >
>
Received on Sat Jan 03 1998 - 17:56:28 MST