Re: [squid-users] FATAL: xcalloc: Unable to allocate 1 blocks of 4112 bytes!

On 9/8/06, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> fre 2006-09-08 klockan 15:55 -0700 skrev Pranav Desai:
>
> > The other thing I found is in the strace. Last brk() before it failed.
> > It seems like some 24bit limit. Any ideas ?
>
> I have only seen such limits on 32-bit systems. Never on an 64-bit
> system running 64-bit software.
>
> So triple-check that ulimit is set like you expect for the Squid
> process. Remember that ulimit is per process so only because your shell
> says something large does not neccesarily mean that Squid is running
> under the same ulimit.
>

Interestingly, disabling dlmalloc solved all the problems. Now the
process size can grow in excess of 2 GB.

Other than maybe some performance gain, do I lose anything by
disabling dlmalloc ?

Thanks for all your input.

-- Pranav

> The Squid I am currently watching is now close to 4GB in size.
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 20701 squid 15 0 3931m 3.8g 1532 S 4 32.4 528:02.21 squid
>
> and still climbing (cache not full yet).
>
> This is on a stock Ubuntu dapper x86_64 with a custom Squid-2.6.STABLE3
> build (some Squid patches, none relevant to memory limits).
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
>

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