Re: problem with storeSwapOutFileOpened

From: Les Higger <lhigger@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:19:26 -0800 (PST)

watching this post.. i get the same storeSwapOutFileOpen error but on "p".
from time to time
my guess is there are times of heavy use by students trying to grab
graphic flies. would increasing the total ram help. I have 90 megs now and
could go to 128. cache_mem is 12megs

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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Duane Wessels wrote:

> "Javier Puche. CSIC RedIRIS" writes:
>
> >Dear all,
> >
> > My squid cache (Squid 2.1PATCH2 with Henrik recomended patches running
> >on Solaris 2.6, ultra 2 machine) is having trouble; median access times
> >are getting to over 5 seconds (even for hits); for one thing it seems
> >to be overloaded (2000 TCP per minute, 6000 ICP per minute), LRU last
> >days was really poor (0.20 days for a 14GB cache) but today got to 0.00
> >days, secondly I am alarmed by the following messages in cache.log:
> >
> > (2) No such file or directory
> >1999/02/18 13:37:04| storeSwapOutFileOpened: Unable to open swapfile:
> >/cache5þ/00/00/00000038
> >
> > where /cache5p is not a directory, it should be (as defined in
> >squid.conf) /cache5/..., this kind of messages are being repeated very
> >very often. Does someone knows what might them be due to ??
> >
> > another bad symptom is that swap size reported by SNMP is cero while
> >cachemgr.cgi reports correct 90% usage of disks.
> >
> > no messages at the console this time (as I used to get many when the
> >UFS getting-full-too-early problem with Solaris)
>
> I can't explain the "cache5p" other than it could be a memory
> corruption bug.
>
> If your cache is not able to keep up with the load, you might want
> to set the 'max_open_disk_fds' option in squid.conf. This will
> limit the number of disk files that get opened for writing. Setting
> this limit will decrease your response times, but it will also
> decrease your hit ratio.
>
> Duane W.
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 19 1999 - 09:35:36 MST

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