Re: an small problems with auth and "space"

On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Roger Pen~a Escobio wrote:

> hello all
>
> since few days ago i have been note that this is login in cache.log
>
> 2000/04/28 09:59:08| helperOpenServers: Starting 5 'ncsa_auth' processes
> 2000/04/28 09:59:08| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Not enough space
> 2000/04/28 09:59:08| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/local/squid/bin/ncsa_auth'
> process.
>
> it look like we don't have free space in the system but :
> /dev/vg01/lvol2 199381 38084 141358 21% /usr/local
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0 1909205 123858 1594426 7% /usr/local/squid/logs
> /dev/vg02/lvol2 1017681 824619 91293 90% /usr/local/squid/cache3
> /dev/vg02/lvol1 1017681 837030 78882 91% /usr/local/squid/cache2
> /dev/vg01/lvol3 1033849 826492 103972 89% /usr/local/squid/cache1
> you see, there are some space more ( and other filesystem have more free
> space, none of them are more than 35 % of used)
> squid are installed under /usr/local/squid directory, and it is the
> 2.2-Stable5 running on a HPUX-10.20.
>
> the point is that the authentication is working!!! so why is the warning??
> i will appreciate any enlightenment.
> thanks

"not enough space" refers to memory and swap space.

You can make the warning go away by adding more swap space.

Duane W.
Received on Fri Apr 28 2000 - 10:20:01 MDT