Re: [squid-users] squid 3.3.8 running away

From: Mr J Potter <jpotter833_at_because.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:35:37 +0000

Hi Eleizer,

thanks for getting back to me.

OK - yes. Its a VMWare virtual machine with 2 interfaces - 1 to
outside world, one with the clients on. Its 2 processor, 4GB RAM,
Debian wheezy 64bit

I can't set it up as router only as it isn't a gateway, and I'm not
keen on rejigging the network to test this, but traffic is likely to
be ~10-20Mbps when it dies, connections per seconds in the hundreds.

'Kills it' is cpu usage hits 99.8-101% and stays there. And it stops
forwarding requests.

there is nothing I can see in the logs (3.2 gave a message about file
descriptors)

I've been through all this before with s squid 3.2 box, and the
solution then was file descriptors. I've not set up disk caching on
this setup (or at least I haven't got a line setting about disk cache
- does it create one by default?). My next thing to try would be
adding a disk cache maybe...

Regards,

Jim Potter
BEC Network Manager

On 31 January 2014 09:58, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer_at_ngtech.co.il> wrote:
> Hey Mr,
>
> I will might not find the solution in one sec but..
> What interfaces do you have?
> What is the network load?
> Have you tried to use SMP on this machine?
> In order to analyze the basic traffic size you can use the machine as a
> "router" only based on linux.
> This would give you the basic picture of the network traffic load.
> The basic information is RPS or Connections Per Second.
>
> What are the symptoms of "kills" it?
> If you do have some logs that will describe it will help to see them.
>
> Thank,
> Eliezer
>
>
> On 31/01/14 11:48, Mr J Potter wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to roll out SSLBump internet filtering. I've got it all
>> working fine under test conditions, but squid grinds to a halt using
>> 100% CPU.
>>
>> I've gone through all the comments on this online, and it seems all to
>> point to file descriptors. (I think I've fixed this proviously by
>> setting this value with squid 3.2).
>>
>> In my current setup I don't have any disk cache, and adding
>> file_descriptors doesn't fix it. It only seems to go when load hist a
>> certain threshold. It can run fine all day, but when I add more
>> traffic, it just dies. I.m pretty sure its nothing to do with SSLBump
>> as I use this server for all youtube traffic via SSLBUmp (its fine)
>> but when I put everything else through with no SSL bump, the load
>> seems to kill it.
>>
>> ... and it doesn't seem to be using the 2GB RAM allocated to it for
>> cache. the whole machine only uses ~750MB.
>>
>> Any idea anyone? config files and details below...
>>
>> thankyou
>>
>> Jim Potter
>> BEC Network Manager
>
> <SNIP>
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