[squid-users] Squid Parent: child process exited ???

Hi,

I recently increased the ram in a squid cache from 750Megs to 1.5Gig and
when I increased the cache_mem size the system (Redhat 7.1,
squid-2.4.STABLE1-5) ran out of file_descriptors. I went through the
process on recompiling the binary, with 8192 file_descriptors instead of
the 1024 default, as per the instructions on Henrik's web site.

Now there is no mention of file_descriptors in the logs but squid
suddenly resets it's self loosing all the data in ram.

The system is stable with an 8Gig disk cache and 800Meg cache_mem but if
  I increase either of these values squid will reset. The total ram used
by squid when it does this is less than 75%. When the total system ram
was 750Megs the cache was stable with squid using 85-90% of ram.

Any suggestions on what the problem is and how to resolve it would be
greatly appreciated.

-David.

Nov 26 09:49:21 rupert out of memory [31601
Nov 26 09:49:22 rupert squid[30344]: Squid Parent: child process 31601
exited with status 1
Nov 26 09:49:25 rupert squid[30344]: Squid Parent: child process 3048
started

Nov 23 16:50:19 rupert out of memory [30345þb^Q@out]
Nov 23 16:50:20 rupert squid[30344]: Squid Parent: child process 30345
exited with status 1
Nov 23 16:50:23 rupert squid[30344]: Squid Parent: child process 31601
started
Received on Tue Nov 27 2001 - 13:31:14 MST