[squid-users] xcalloc error when installing squid in container on CentOS 9 host

[Francesco Chemolli]

Hi Frank,
  could you share what does your configuration look like (minus any
confidential bits)? And I assume you're running the version of squid
packaged by the distros?


On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 9:22 AM Frank Ansari <nabil1385 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have found a weird issue with CentOS 9.
>
> So far I had squid running on a CentOS 8 system within an Alpine Linux
> Container and this has worked.
>
> Now I installed CentOS 9 and also latest Alpine Linux with squid 5.5.
>
> Squid refuses to start and when I run "squid -z" I get this error:
>
> [root at 324ae7d5e4db /]# 2022/08/01 08:01:47| FATAL: xcalloc: Unable to
> allocate 1073741816 blocks of 432 bytes!
>
> 2022/08/01 08:01:47| Squid Cache (Version 5.5): Terminated abnormally.
> CPU Usage: 0.002 seconds = 0.000 user + 0.002 sys
> Maximum Resident Size: 31744 KB
> Page faults with physical i/o: 0
>
> My question: has anybody the same issue? Why is squid asking for 432 GB?
>
> This seems to have nothing to do with my squid.conf. Whatever I change
> there has no effect at all.
>
> The CentOS 9 VM is running on Proxmox and has 4 GB RAM.
>
> I also tried to install Debian 11 and Ubuntu 20 and 22 containers and
> similar errors.
>
> My last try was to install a CentOS 9 conatiner on the CentOS 9 host and
> also this gives the same error.
>
> I have now installed squid 5.5 directly on the OS but I still curios why
> it refuses to run in any kind of container.
>
>
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    Francesco
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