Re: wild swap.state

I've experienced this a couple of times, I don't know what causes it
but it might be something to do with sending reconfigure signals to
squid at the wrong time (like whilst its rotating logs or still
initialising or something).

For me deleting the swap state file worked - squid would spend half an
hour or so analysing the cache directory and rebuilding the file to its
proper size.

 - Darrin
 

On 28 Aug, adepoo@tamnet.com.mx wrote:
>
> My FreeBSD 3.1 box is acting weird, from time to time the swap.state grows
> to the size of all free space on my hard disk. I think it get corrupt, but
> I don't know why.
>
> Anyone saw this?
>
> When this happens the squid process get all the memory (phisical and swap)
> and at least one time I can't even login into the machine.
>
> When I reduced the directories from 16 256 to 8 128 it work for more days,
> but eventualy it happen again (2000 as the cache space).
>
> Thanks for any info.
>

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