kern/64971: A squid process larger than 3G

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR kern/64971; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: kern/64971: A squid process larger than 3G
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 01:04:36 -0700

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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
 
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