Re: [squid-users] squid process

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 02:05:35 -0600

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001, nctucis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use Redhat 6.2, and the version of squid is 2.3 stable_1.
> After squid is running, I type "ps" to see process table.
> I found following tree entres. Why does squid need 3 process?
> Could you teach me? Thanks a lot.
>
> root 813 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Squid -D

This is the 'parent' process, which watches the child.

> squid 814 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (squid) -D

This is the main process handling your requests.

> squid 815 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (unlink)

This process handles deleteting files. It is used by the 'ufs' store
to offload deleting cache objects to an external process, freeing up
the main process to handle requests.

Adrian
Received on Mon Apr 09 2001 - 02:05:35 MDT

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