[squid-users] Inexplicable death of Squid.

Hi,

Our main Squid box died for the first time in over 6 months Saturday night
but I cannot discover why.

It looks like it tried to dump the memory to logs or rotate the logs, then
could not restart, it tried 5 times with the same error then gave up.
However 22:21 is a very strange time to rotate the logs!

Below is a bit of my Syslog, can anyone please shed some light onto this for
me.

Many thanks in advance,

Jezz.

Oct 20 22:21:05 octopussy squid[411]: storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
Oct 20 22:21:05 octopussy squid[411]: WARNING: Closing open FD 3
Oct 20 22:21:06 octopussy squid[411]: 65536 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:06 octopussy squid[411]: 131072 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:06 octopussy squid[411]: 196608 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:06 octopussy squid[411]: 262144 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:06 octopussy squid[411]: 327680 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:06 octopussy squid[411]: 393216 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:07 octopussy squid[411]: 458752 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:07 octopussy squid[411]: 524288 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:07 octopussy squid[411]: 589824 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:08 octopussy squid[411]: 655360 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:08 octopussy squid[411]: 720896 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:08 octopussy squid[411]: 786432 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:09 octopussy squid[411]: 851968 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:09 octopussy squid[411]: 917504 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:09 octopussy squid[411]: 983040 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:09 octopussy squid[411]: 1048576 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:09 octopussy squid[411]: 1114112 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:09 octopussy squid[411]: 1179648 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:10 octopussy squid[411]: 1245184 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:10 octopussy squid[411]: 1310720 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:10 octopussy squid[411]: 1376256 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:10 octopussy squid[411]: 1441792 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:10 octopussy squid[411]: 1507328 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:11 octopussy squid[411]: 1572864 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:11 octopussy squid[411]: 1638400 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:11 octopussy squid[411]: 1703936 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:11 octopussy squid[411]: 1769472 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:11 octopussy squid[411]: 1835008 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:11 octopussy squid[411]: 1900544 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:12 octopussy squid[411]: 1966080 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:12 octopussy squid[411]: 2031616 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:12 octopussy squid[411]: 2097152 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:12 octopussy squid[411]: 2162688 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:12 octopussy squid[411]: 2228224 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:13 octopussy squid[411]: 2293760 entries written so far.
Oct 20 22:21:16 octopussy squid[411]: Finished. Wrote 2309351 entries.
Oct 20 22:21:16 octopussy squid[411]: Took 8 seconds (288668.9
entries/sec).
Oct 20 22:21:17 octopussy squid[409]: Squid Parent: child process 411 exited
due to signal 6
Oct 20 22:21:20 octopussy squid[409]: Squid Parent: child process 26371
started
Oct 20 22:21:20 octopussy squid[26371]: Starting Squid Cache version
2.2.STABLE5 for i686-pc-linux-gnu...
Oct 20 22:21:20 octopussy squid[26371]: Process ID 26371
Oct 20 22:21:20 octopussy squid[26371]: With 1024 file descriptors available
Oct 20 22:21:20 octopussy squid[26371]: Performing DNS Tests...
Oct 20 22:21:20 octopussy squid[26371]: Successful DNS name lookup tests...
Oct 20 22:21:20 octopussy squid[26371]: helperOpenServers: Starting 32
'dnsserver' processes
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 38
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Swap maxSize 28672000 KB, estimated
2205538 objects
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Target number of buckets: 44110
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Using 65536 Store buckets,
replacement runs every 1 second
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Max Mem size: 65536 KB
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Max Swap size: 28672000 KB
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #0
(CLEAN)
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #1
(CLEAN)
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #2
(CLEAN)
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #3
(CLEAN)
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #4
(CLEAN)
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #5
(CLEAN)
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #6
(CLEAN)
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Set Current Directory to
/usr/local/cache/1/
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Loaded Icons.
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Accepting HTTP connections on port
3128, FD 73.
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Accepting ICP messages on port 3130,
FD 74.
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Accepting SNMP messages on port
3401, FD 75.
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Ready to serve requests.
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Configuring Parent
swan0.sites.wwwcache.ja.net/8080/3130
Oct 20 22:21:21 octopussy squid[26371]: Configuring Parent
swan1.sites.wwwcache.ja.net/8080/3130
Oct 20 22:21:22 octopussy squid[26371]: 65536 Entries read so far.
Oct 20 22:21:23 octopussy squid[26371]: Not currently OK to rewrite swap
log.
Oct 20 22:21:23 octopussy squid[26371]: storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Operation
aborted.
Oct 20 22:21:23 octopussy squid[409]: Squid Parent: child process 26371
exited due to signal 6
Oct 20 22:21:26 octopussy squid[409]: Squid Parent: child process 26405
started

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Jezz Palmer.
Internet Systems Officer.
Library and Information Services
University of Wales, Swansea
Singleton Park
Swansea
SA2 8PP
Tel 01792 513260
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Received on Mon Oct 22 2001 - 02:46:00 MDT