Re: [squid-users] Very strange squid problem

From: jotacekm <minuzzo_at_viaip.com.br>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:52:50 -0700 (PDT)

hello

squid version is:
squid 2.6.5-6etch1

I dont have any of the features you related. Disk cache is:
cache_dir aufs /var/spool/squid 5000 16 256

i have debug_options ALL,9 and no errors reported on cache.log...

We have just moved the server to new hardware, and the problem still goes
on.

Amos Jeffries-2 wrote:
>
> jotacekm wrote:
>> We have a proxy server running squid with a good number of clients
>> connected.
>>
>> Sometimes clients just cant browse pages anymore (not all clients, but
>> most). They can ping the proxy, ping to outside servers, resolve dns, and
>> so
>> does the proxy server.
>> I checked CPU (5-10% usage), memory (not swapping), Disk, load,
>> connections,
>> firewall, everything is fine. No errors on systems logs and cache.log.
>> Squid
>> is up and running. Squid FD limit is 4096 but wasnt even near this limit
>> (netstat -na | grep 3128 | wc -l returned around 400 and lsof -nPi | grep
>> squid | wc -l returned around 30)
>>
>> So, on the proxy server, I try "telnet 127.0.0.1 3128".Sometimes it times
>> out, sometimes it connects quickly, sometimes it takes like 5 seconds to
>> connect. I tried a lot of times and this is what keeps happening, most of
>> the time it does not connect. If i run squid -k reconfigure, telnet goes
>> back to normal and people browsing goes back to normal.
>>
>> Has anyone here ever had a problem like this? Any ideas on what might be
>> the
>> cause?
>>
>
> Using any of these?
>
> Squid 2.6 or older
> ICAP
> diskd
> ident
> dnsserver helper
> large disk cache
> remote network SAN disk
> RAID
>
> Logs would be the place to look. Specifically the cache.log, if there is
> no indication at the usual log level you run bump debug_options ALL,2
> or ALL,3 and see if anything shows up more than normal when the problem
> is happening.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE6 or 3.0.STABLE16
> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.9
>
>

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