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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 01:01:24 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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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