Re: Facing the MD5 Problem

From: Hamid Reza Shahriari <hamid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 06:01:38 +0000

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Ahsan Khan wrote:
>
> > Apr 25 14:26:18 ipv6 squid[32627]: WARNING: swapin MD5 mismatch
> > Apr 25 14:26:18 ipv6 squid[32627]: storeClientReadHeader: URL mismatch
> > Apr 25 14:26:18 ipv6 squid[32627]:
> > ^I{http://xbs.mtree.com/redmark/youngchicks/1
> > 008.gif} != {http://www.aceofbase.net/artwork/single1.jpg}
>
> This is seen when Squid finds another object than it expected on the
> disk. Such things might happen if you have had a unclean shutdown and
> parts of swap.state has been lost. The effect is that squid complains
> about the issue and falls back on processing the request as a cache
> miss.
>
> If you only receive one or two of them then there is no reason to worry.
> If you receive a lot then it might be a good idea to have Squid rebuild
> the index.
>
> How:
>
> 1. Shut down Squid
> 2. Remove the cache_dir/swap.state* files
> 3. Start Squid again
>
> Or you might ignore the issue. It should fix itself after a while unless
> you have more unclean shutdowns or crashes.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid hacker

  I have seen this warning message when using Squid-2.3.st2 with
asyncufs.
I filled cache with Polygraph and tested it. It seems that it is a bug,
because I have not seen this warning in previous versions.

--Hamid R. Shahriari
Received on Sat Apr 29 2000 - 00:04:40 MDT

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