Re: [PATCH] Fix session helper "crashing too rapidly"

From: Andrew Beverley <andy_at_andybev.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:32:11 +0100

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 11:10 +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> > However, it still leaves the question: what is the best way to log
> > errors from the helper. At the moment, even with the patch applied, a
> > user will still get "The helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help" if
> > they don't specify a concurrency value. I was trying to fix this, as I
> > spent hours locating the problem!
> >
>
> The correct way is with ERROR: or in this case "FATAL:" messages sent to
> stderr from the helper. The user will get N of that message over a 30
> seconds period, then Squids helpers dying message and abort.
>
> Why the message is not showing up in your cache.log is a mystery.
> Perhapse it was buffered and discarded by the segfault? something like that?

I'm still not getting anything, even with the segfault bug fixed.

Could you point in the direction of the code where this should happen
(sorry, I can't find it), so that I can try and work out why it's not
happening for me please?

Thanks for your reply to my other post.

Andy
Received on Thu Sep 22 2011 - 06:32:18 MDT

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