Zabbix Server/Proxy crashes after hitting vmcachesize limit

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    • Type: Incident report
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Priority: Critical
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    • Affects Version/s: 2.4.5
    • Component/s: Proxy (P), Server (S)
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    • Environment:
      CentOS 6.5 vmware guest

      Zabbix proxy crashed after hitting the vmcachesize limit.

      Here's the VMware configuration on the proxy:

      StartVMwareCollectors=2
      VMwareCacheSize=8M
      VMwareFrequency=60
      VMwarePerfFrequency=60
      VMwareTimeout=10

      Here's the log entry during the crash:

      9538:20150901:085838.108 End of zbx_vmware_service_get_perf_entity() entity:0x7fbe2c1a0f78
      9538:20150901:085838.110 __mem_malloc: skipped 0 asked 512 skip_min 4294967295 skip_max 0
      9538:20150901:085838.110 file:vmware.c,line:79 zbx_mem_malloc(): out of memory (requested 512 bytes)
      9538:20150901:085838.110 file:vmware.c,line:79 zbx_mem_malloc(): please increase VMwareCacheSize configuration parameter
      9161:20150901:085838.131 One child process died (PID:9538,exitcode/signal:1). Exiting ...
      9537:20150901:085838.546 Got signal [signal:15(SIGTERM),sender_pid:9161,sender_uid:496,reason:0]. Exiting ...

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            Reporter:
            Michelle Taggart
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