Re: [squid-users] ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory

> Hi.
> This morning squid 2.6s4, running on Slackware Linux 11.0
> with 2.6.18.1 kernel, has crashed after logging this entries:
>
> 2006/10/26 04:40:12| logfileRotate: /var/spool/squid/logs/access.log
> 2006/10/26 04:40:12| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 50 'ntlm_auth'
> processes
> 2006/10/26 04:40:12| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory
> 2006/10/26 04:40:12| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/libexec/squid/ntlm_auth'
> process.
> 2006/10/26 04:40:12| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory
> ...
> 2006/10/26 04:40:22| Ready to serve requests.
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| helperStatefulGetServer: No running servers!.
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| WARNING: Closing open FD 7
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| commSetEvents: epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL): failed on
> fd=7: (1) Operation not permitted
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 65536 entries written so far.
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 131072 entries written so far.
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 196608 entries written so far.
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| 262144 entries written so far.
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| Finished. Wrote 317254 entries.
> 2006/10/26 08:02:54| Took 0.2 seconds (1949165.7 entries/sec).
> FATAL: Too many queued ntlmauthenticator requests (1 on 0)
> Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
>
> This machine has 1GB ram + ~800 MB swap
> cache_mem set to 768 MB
>
> Clues?
>

Start setting 'cache_mem' to default; please read the meaning
of this param in squid.conf.default >carefully<

M.
Received on Thu Oct 26 2006 - 04:56:56 MDT