Re: FATAL: Failed to fork() for ftpget.

On Friday 20 December 96, at 12 h 17, the keyboard of Torsten Kleber
<kleber@sns-felb.debis.de> wrote:

> we have 64 MB virtual memory ans 128 MB swap-space
> >
> > Increase virtual memory.
> do you mean increase the 64 MB or the squid-option: #cache_mem 8

Increase *virtual* memory of the machine. 64 MB is probably your physical
memory. On most systems, virtual memory = swap space (on Linux, it is
swap space + physical memory).

If you increase Squid's cache_mem, you magnify Squid, making the problem
worse.

> after the problem happened yesterday, i changed to cache_mem 16B
>
> > Add swap space.
> we have 128 MB, how can i add swap ?

It depends on your system. On Linux, "swapon /dev/xxx".

> this means, 14295 pages a 4k --> 58552 k
...
> www.sns-felb.debis.de# swap -s
> total: 65840k bytes allocated + 3636k reserved = 69476k used, 107260k
> available

No idea. Swap seems sufficient for one more Squid (but not two). "man
fork" gives perhaps ideas about "Not enough space" cases?
Received on Fri Dec 20 1996 - 07:09:59 MST