[squid-users] stoping after rotate

[Jorgeley Junior]

Thanks Amos, my swap is 32GB, so that's causing the error as you said.
Which is the better choice: increase the swap size or reduce the
cache_mem???

2015-09-04 13:55 GMT-03:00 Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz>:

> On 4/09/2015 11:32 p.m., Jorgeley Junior wrote:
> > Hi guys, I suspect my squid stop to serve request after rotate, in the
> > morning, after I restarted it, everything goes to normal.
> > here is the log:
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1|   Finished.  Wrote 39639 entries.
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1|   Took 0.01 seconds (5804510.18 entries/sec).
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| logfileRotate: stdio:/var/logs/store.log
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| Rotate log file stdio:/var/logs/store.log
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| logfileRotate: stdio:/var/logs/access.log
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| Rotate log file stdio:/var/logs/access.log
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| helperOpenServers: Starting 1/10
> > 'basic_ncsa_auth' processes
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| ipcCreate: fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory
>
> As you can see Squid uses fork() to spawn its helpers. That means Linux
> is going to allocate an N amount of virtual memory equal to the memory
> currently being used by Squid.
>
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:01 kid1| WARNING: Cannot run
> > '/etc/squid-3.5.6/libexec/basic_ncsa_auth' process.
> > 2015/09/04 00:00:55 kid1| WARNING: Memory usage at 67121 MB
> > ...
>
> Which is over 64 GiB.
>
> Does your machine have 67,121 MB of virtual memory free ?
>  it would seem not to.
>
>
> The only workaround for this is to keep Squid cache_mem small enough
> that these oprations do not fail when it is fully in-use.
>
> Amos
>
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