Cannot allocate memory

[Jan-Aage Frydenbø-Bruvoll]

Dear list,

Lately we have had problems loading up new VCLs to our varnish
machines, with the following message:

Command failed with error code 106
VCL compiled.dlopen(./vcl.K_vwYyM9.so): ./vcl.K_vwYyM9.so: failed to
map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory

The list of VCLs loaded at the time of failure was:

$ varnishadm vcl.list
CLI connected to 10.140.106.18 8081
available       0 boot
available       0 jafb-test
available       0 jafb-tes2
available       0 cap_release_1326203294
available       0 cap_release_1326203474
available       0 cap_release_1326204927
available       0 cap_release_1326210562
available       0 cap_release_1326275426
active        127 cap_release_1326275758

The machine in question should have plenty of memory free and
available. The Varnish instance has an uptime of 48-50 hours. The
Varnish version is varnish-3.0.1 revision 6152bf7 and the command line
parameters used are
 -u nobody -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -T <removed>:8081 -s malloc,14G
-p thread_pools=4 -p thread_pool_max=1500 -p listen_depth=2048 -p
lru_interval=1800 -h classic,169313 -p connect_timeout=600

Would anyone have any ideas on how we can pinpoint the source of the
problem and/or whether there are any obvious tuning knobs we should
have twiddled?

Thanks in advance for your kind assistance.

Best regards
Jan