Re: [squid-users] Squid crashing - assertion failed - using COSS

On 08/01/11 00:44, Robert Pipca wrote:
> Hi Mr. Jeffreis,
>
> 2011/1/7 Robert Pipca<robertpipca_at_gmail.com>:
>> 2011/1/7 Amos Jeffries<squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
>>> Your config shows ~69 GB of small files. Each cache_dir has a maximum count
>>> of 2^31 files. It looks like that file count is being exceeded and the
>>> overflow handling is broken.
>
> I looked at one server showing this bug, and mgr:info gives me this:
>
> Internal Data Structures:
> 8152065 StoreEntries
> 271 StoreEntries with MemObjects
> 27 Hot Object Cache Items
> 8151819 on-disk objects
>
> Since 2^31 is around 2+ billion files, it doesn't seem that maximum
> count of files is being reached on all cache_dirs...

Thats a good sign in a way. The fix looks like it will be a patch, just
a matter of finding it.

>
> Do you have any other ideas as to why this bug keeps happening?
>
> I don't know how to reproduce it, but I have around 10 squid machines
> on different operations of our ISP showing this issue, all with the
> same coss setup.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Robert.

You will have to contact Adrian about the Lusca side of things. That is
his private commercial fork.

Henrik may be able to help with the squid-2 bits.

Amos

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