Re: [squid-users] helpers die all at the same time without any reason

Did you tried another helper? in another language?
What squid version?
what OS?

Eliezer

On 1/1/2013 4:47 PM, JokeTube.TV wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using helpers to customize Squid's functionality. I noticed that
> helpers die after some time (all at the same time). Is that normal? Is
> there any limit how much requests one helper could serve and after
> must be killed?
>
> 2013/01/01 16:19:22| WARNING: basicauthenticator #1 (FD 12) exited
> 2013/01/01 16:19:22| WARNING: basicauthenticator #3 (FD 32) exited
> 2013/01/01 16:19:23| WARNING: basicauthenticator #2 (FD 16) exited
> 2013/01/01 16:19:23| Too few basicauthenticator processes are running
> 2013/01/01 16:19:23| Starting new helpers
>
> This kind of logs seems suspicious to me. The helper program is a
> simple PHP script which has set_time_limit(0) at the beginning and
> while loop to process requests:
>
> while ($line = fgets(STDIN)) {
> // connect to DB if connection does not exist or were closed
> list($userName, $password) = explode(' ', trim($line), 2);
> // check user & pass and reply OK, ERR or BH
> }
>
> Can anyone suggest what debug_options's section I should use to log
> helper killing reason? Any suggestion or tip will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>

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