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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: odd INN behavior Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 19:06:34 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 36 Message-ID: <329B3FBA.3AE0@www.play-hookey.com> References: <5709o2$r7h@itchy.serv.net> <3297E882.6CE8@OntheNet.com.au> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Tony Griffiths wrote: > > Sean T. Lamont . wrote: > > > > I've been having INN behave oddly. > > > > Every so often, it will fail on a realloc() call, citing "cannot realloc > > x bytes). x is usually in the range of 5-20 megabytes. This has been increasing > > as of late, but the distressing thing is the allocation failure ; at the times > > that it happens, there is usually 200-300 megabytes of swap available > > on the system, and it's failing on 15M allocations? > > > > Has aybody seen this? > > > Yes, but not with INN! In my case it was Squid (WWW cacheing proxy) > that couldn't expand it's data segment VM. The fix was to rebuild the > kernel with the following options- > > options "MAXDSIZ=536870912" #Maximum Data Segment size=512MB > options "DFLDSIZ=268435456" #Default Data Segment size=256MB Interesting. I recently added agent and referer logging to my site, and found a few entries in agent_log that suggest that Squid is actually being used twice or more. A typical entry showing this was: Mozilla/3.0Gold (WinNT; I) via Squid Cache version 1.0.20 via Squid Cache version 1.0.20 via Squid Cache version 1.0.18 If something is caching documents two or three times, it won't take long to run out of memory! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |