[squid-users] FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 61440 bytes!

My proxy crashed with this error:

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FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 61440 bytes!
Squid Cache (Version 2.4.PRE-STABLE): Terminated abnormally.
(bla-bla)
2001/03/26 10:37:37| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
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I'm running 2.4.PRE-STABLE-20010226 with this patch:

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zoul 3# cat dns.c.patch
--- src/dns.c.orig Tue Mar 20 14:54:03 2001
+++ src/dns.c Tue Mar 20 14:54:36 2001
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
            fatal("DNS servers not responding for 3 minutes");
        debug(34, 1) ("dnsSubmit: queue overload, rejecting %s\n",
lookup);
        callback(data, "$fail temporary network problem, pleas retry
later");
+ return;
     }
     first_warn = 0;
     helperSubmit(dnsservers, buf, callback, data);
zoul 4#
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Before applying the patch, i got lots of "assertion failed" in the DNS
code.
Before it crashed, i got these messages:

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2001/03/26 08:54:36| WARNING: All dnsserver processes are busy.
2001/03/26 08:54:36| WARNING: 32 pending requests queued

2001/03/26 10:34:27| WARNING: All redirector processes are busy.
2001/03/26 10:34:27| WARNING: 32 pending requests queued
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So both redirectors and dnsservers are very busy.

-- 
Florin Andrei