RE: [squid-users] FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 87380 bytes!

How do I monitor to see if the machine is out of swap? Squid FAQ 8.7 says to
use pstat but that is not a recognizable command.

-----Original Message-----
From: Artem Stepanoff [mailto:Artem.Stepanoff@nbi.ua]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:07 AM
To: McDermott, AS Amanda (5841) @ IS
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 87380 bytes!

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:36:46AM -0500, McDermott, AS Amanda (5841) @ IS
wrote:
> I recently encountered a memory issue with squid. When I ran top I
> noticed the free memory was decreasing drastically. Once it got to
> 5029 squid stopped for 2 minutes. The free memory increased back to
> 918316 and the following message showed up in cache.log:
>
> FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 87380 bytes!
>
> Squid Cache (Version 2.4.STABLE6): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 7027.780 seconds = 3395.790 user + 3631.990 sys Maximum
> Resident
> Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 373 Memory usage for squid via
> mallinfo():
> total space in arena: 915195 KB
> Ordinary blocks: 728142 KB 95324 blks
> Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
> Holding blocks: 2244 KB 3 blks
> Free Small blocks: 0 KB
> Free Ordinary blocks: 187053 KB
> Total in use: 730386 KB 80%
> Total free: 187053 KB 20%
>
> Squid shut down at 4:11 and restated at 4:13 -- giving 2 minutes of
> down time. What does "FATAL: xmalloc: Unable to allocate 87380 bytes!"
> mean and what is the best way to fix this?
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Amanda

  Hello.
 Please, read the FAQ: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.7

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