On Saturday 06 September 2003 09.02, Ray Phillips wrote: > I built a new kernel to raise this limit to 390 MB RAM (the machine > has 448 MB) but then found issuing the command > > squid -k reconfigure
machine freezes are almost always due to kernel issues, not application software like Squid. Application software should at most be able to temporarily slow down the system, not cause it to freeze. What should be noted is that Squid during "-k reconfigure" or "-k rotate" may fork a number of times (once per helper process), which will stress your VM system considerably. See the Squid FAQ 8.8 fork: (12) Cannot allocate memory <url:http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.8> for some discussion regarding this feature of Squid. Maybe your kernel has some issue with fork of very large processes or running out of swap space casuing the freeze instead of an error which it should give in such conditions.. Regards Henrik -- Donations welcome if you consider my Free Squid support helpful. https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=hno%40squid-cache.org If you need commercial Squid support or cost effective Squid or firewall appliances please refer to MARA Systems AB, Sweden http://www.marasystems.com/, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
