Re: squid 1.1.20 receives non-existant SIGHUP on FreeBSD 2.2.2R

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 03:43:56 +1000

Are you bouncing against a resource-limit that might be generating the signal?

D

Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote:

> At 1:53 PM -0800 1/20/98, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> >I've run squids 1.16, 1.18->1.20 under a variety of versions of FreeBSD,
> >with loads of about 30-40k URL's/hour, and it works just fine.
> >
> >You sure you don't have a cron job for log rotation, or something else
> >restarting that thing?
>
> At last! Confirmation that I'm not going crazy. I'm also seeing this
> exact same behavior (under squid 1.16->1.20). We spent a *long* time
> trying to track down the problem (basically turning off cron for a while to
> make sure there was no secret periodic job that was causing the problem,
> running squid in the foreground rather than the background to see if some
> secret error message was printed, searching the archives for anyone
> experieincing a similar problem, etc...) All of this came to naught and we
> just eventually gave up and made a cron job that runs every couple of
> minutes and restarts squid if it's dead. This is (IMHO) not a good
> solution at all, but for a while I thought we were the only one with the
> problem.
>
> Does anyone have insight into what would be causing this?
>
> Jordyn
>
> >On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Adam W. Dace wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not exactly sure why this is happening, but it just happened while
> >> our IS team was out to lunch. So either someone's hacked us -just- to
> >> play with squid(doubtful), or squid is somehow receiving signals that it
> >> shouldn't be.
> >>
> >> This from squid_cache.log:
> >>
> >> 1998/01/20 13:56:24| reconfigure: SIGHUP received
> >> 1998/01/20 13:56:24| Waiting 30 seconds for active connections to finish
> >> 1998/01/20 13:56:24| FD 21 Closing HTTP connection
> >>
> >> The real reason I'm writing is for a suggested version to run. Anyone
> >> know of a version past 1.1.10 which runs stably on FreeBSD 2.2.2R? I've
> >> already talked to a fellow FBSD user, and he suggests 1.1.10, which I'll
> >> be downgrading to tonight. Our squid proxy handles roughly 20 people,
> >> and I've grown tired of hearing users yell when it goes down
> >> approximately once a day.
> >>
> >> I also wanted to thank the squid authors for a wonderful product, we use
> >> it every day, and now that it has enough memory to effectively run
> >> happily, it's quite speedy as well.
> >>
> >> Have a good one, and thanks,
> >>
> >> --
> >> Adam W. Dace (AD332) | E-Mail: awd@fastparts.com
> >> Software Programmer | Office URL: http://www.fastparts.com/
> >> FastParts, Inc. | Personal URL: http://www.turing.com/awd/
> >>
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