Re: [squid-users] how to detect squid running away...

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Zhu, H. wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We installed Sun freeware squid-2.3.STABLE1-sol8-intel-local
> on an Intel platform running Solaris 8 (RAM 512M). However we
> noticed that the (squid) process running away from time to time,
> as it failed to serve requests. Checking the squid processes:
>
> # ps -lef |grep squid
> 8 S squid 21345 21341 0 41 20 e2807810 177 e1b3347c Jun 20 ?
> 0:36 (unlinkd)
> 8 S squid 21341 21340 2 39 20 e30d8818 121084 e2db91f0 Jun 20 ?
> 300:03 (squid)
> 8 S squid 21340 1 0 81 20 e3083858 835 e30838c4 Jun 20 ?
> 0:00 /usr/local/squid/bin/squid
>
>
> The (squid) process had 121084 pages, that was about ~470Mb,
> so is there any system parameter I can setup to prevent
> squid from running away?
>
> Is there any other tool/script to detect running away squid process?
>
> Also, when this happens, "squid -k shutdown" can only terminates
> (unlinkd) process, we had to manually terminate the other 2 processes:
> (squid) and /usr/local/squid/bin/squid, is there other better solution
> to stop and start squid when it becomes this bad?

First, try a newer version. You may have to compile it yourself.

http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.4/
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 15:36:26 MDT