Re: [squid-users] Potential crash issue found

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 14:42:57 +1200

On 7/05/2013 3:50 a.m., Loïc BLOT wrote:
> Hi since my recent upgrade to 3.3.4, squid always have crashes and not
> some infinite loop (i think because of 100% CPU load)
> i think i have found why my squid crashes under OpenBSD. Squid has 3096
> FD limit and system has 256 for daemon class.
>
> When i start squid, sometimes, the previous issue happens, randomly
> (15min, 1hour, 3 hours).
>
> When i upgraded to OpenBSD 5.3 i saw the /etc/login.conf ulimit for
> daemon class is 256, i increase it to 4096, and it seems there is no
> crash/freeze (15h uptime since this modification !).
>
> I think squid must check ulimit -n under UNIX systems which support it
> (BSD, Linux) to verify if it's FD limit is over system FD limits.
>
> What do you think about this ?

I think you need to provide details of this crash. Crashes are always
represented; in cache.log with "assertion failed" or "unhandled
exception" notice, or in OS messages log by some process termination
error when SegmentationFault happens.

Amos
Received on Tue May 07 2013 - 02:43:03 MDT

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