Bug 64971

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:44:41PM +0800, Wei-Kai Wu wrote:

> >Description:
> When running squid allocated more than 3G memory, the squid will crash.
> I have tuned the kernel with MAXDSIZ=(3072UL*1024*1024) and KVA_PAGES=192.
> 
> If I enlarged the MAXDSIZ > 3072, the system cannot boot with error message:
> (after loading kernel, running init)
> init in malloc(): error: recursive call
> init in malloc(): error: recursive call
> ...


What you described is not squid crashing, but init.

It sounds like you've adjusted the kernel parameters inappropriately,
and that's what you need to fix.  I don't know the solution off-hand,
but check the mailing list archives for extensive discussion on how to
tune kernel parameters for large-memory configurations.

Be aware that what you're trying to do may be impossible - i.e. if you
really need 3GB of RAM for squid, it sounds like it's being heavily
used, and may therefore also require a lot of kernel memory to manage
the network resources.q  If you need more than 1GB of kernel memory,
you're out of luck with only 4GB total.

Kris

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Subject: Re: kern/64971: A squid process larger than 3G
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 06:00:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>  What you described is not squid crashing, but init.
>  
>  It sounds like you've adjusted the kernel parameters inappropriately,
>  and that's what you need to fix.  I don't know the solution off-hand,
>  but check the mailing list archives for extensive discussion on how to
>  tune kernel parameters for large-memory configurations.
>  
>  Be aware that what you're trying to do may be impossible - i.e. if you
>  really need 3GB of RAM for squid, it sounds like it's being heavily
>  used, and may therefore also require a lot of kernel memory to manage
>  the network resources.q  If you need more than 1GB of kernel memory,
>  you're out of luck with only 4GB total.

Did you resolve this problem?

Kris

----- End forwarded message -----

Comment 3 Remko Lodder 2006-12-29 19:11:52 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

major feedback timeout (since 2004)