Re: squid dying: xmalloc

Hi Lars,

> recently my squid died with this error:
>
> Fatal: xmalloc: unable to allocate 65535 bytes
>
> the following lines were in cache.log:
> CPU usage: user 12732 sys 18011
> Maximum resident size 0kb
> page faults with physical i/o 652561
> memory usage for squid via mallinfo
> total space in arena: 216201
> ordinary blocks: 197335
> small blocks: 0k
> holding blocks: 1304k
> free small blocks: 0k
> free ordinary blocks: 18865k
> total in use: 198639k 92%
> total free: 18865k 9%
>
> I can´t make anything of this, but i think squid runs out of memory, but
> why?
>
Have a look at url: http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.7

Cheers, Henny

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