thanks henrick
but is this paramater in the /proc file system ..
i could only get freepages and the bdflush parameters
my machine has 512 MB ram dedicated exclusively for squid
TIA
khiz
--- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:
> Seems your kernel seriously ran out of memory. Try adjusting the
> "freemem" parameter of your kernel to give it more slack in case of
> sudden demands for kernel memory..
>
> Regards
> Henrik Nordström
> Squid Hacker
>
>
> khiz code wrote:
> >
> > Hi all
> > ytday one of my squid boxes gave the foll in cache.log
> > 2001/12/06 19:57:00| comm_poll: poll failure: (12) Cannot allocate memory
> > 2001/12/06 19:57:00| Select loop Error. Retry 10
> > FATAL: Select Loop failed!
> > Squid Cache (Version 2.4.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally.
> > then it restarted automatically
> >
> > Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
> > total space in arena: 189335 KB
> > Ordinary blocks: 187344 KB 7863 blks
> > Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
> > Holding blocks: 5448 KB 7 blks
> > Free Small blocks: 0 KB
> > Free Ordinary blocks: 1990 KB
> > Total in use: 192792 KB 102%
> > Total free: 1990 KB 1%
> > 2001/12/06 19:57:00| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
> >
> > At the same time i got something similar in /var/log/messages
> > Dec 7 09:22:17 cache kernel: eth1: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> > Dec 7 09:22:17 cache kernel: eth1: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> > Dec 7 09:22:17 cache kernel: eth1: can't fill rx buffer (force 0)!
> > Dec 7 09:22:17 cache kernel: eth1: can't fill rx buffer (force 1)!
> >
> > this is squid 2.4 S1 on kernel 2.2.19 redhat 6.2
> >
> > squid was up for abt 1 month prior to this
> > TIA
> > Khiz
> >
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