Re: Cache.log error message

At 8:17 PM -0800 2/28/2000, Quek Meng-Chong wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Been seeing this error message in some of my boxes.
>
>2000/02/14 20:04:41| comm_accept: FD 536870936: (14) Bad address
>
>Afterwhich the squid daemon consumes practically all CPU time. The squid
>daemon does not terminate but does not respond to http request. The squid
>daemon cannot be shutdown properly by the command "squid -k shutdown" and
>has to killed.
>
>Am running 2.2Stable2 on BSDI4.1
>
>Cheerio
>Meng-Chong
>
>Quek Meng-Chong mengchong.quek@pacific.net.sg
>Network Engineer Pacific Internet Limited
>
>"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
> I took the one less traveled by,
> And that has made all the difference"
>
>Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken (1915)

And I thought I was the only one. Here's a message I posted on 9/29/1999:

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I've recently installed Squid 2.2.STABLE4 on a Dell Poweredge 2300 server
running (fully-patched) BSD/OS 4.0.1. The cache is spread across 3 18GB
Seagate ST318203LC drives. The system has a single 550 MHz Pentium III and
512MB of RAM.

It runs fine for several days and then suddenly the squid process goes
CPU-bound and stops doing anything useful. The last entry in the cache.log
file is always:

comm_accept: FD 0: (14) Bad address

There seems to be plenty of RAM available; the Squid process is using
somewhere around 310 MB and there is approximately 100 MB Free (as reported
by "top").

Shutting down and restarting the server process brings the cache back to
life for another several days until the same thing happens again.

Does anyone have any ideas about diagnosing this problem? I didn't see
this problem reported in the Hypermail archives. TIA...
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The problem appears to lie with BSD/OS. I submitted a problem report
[BSDI-Support-Request #65198] on 10/01/1999 and they *still* haven't been
able to deliver a fix. As a consequence, I'm planning to move our squid
server from BSD/OS to either FreeBSD, OpenBSD or RedHat LINUX 6.1. Does
anyone have any experience with Squid 2.2STABLE4 or later on either of
these OSes with anything resembling the Dell configuration described above?

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Dave Martin Netcetera, Inc. dpm@netcetera.com
               "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
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Received on Mon Feb 28 2000 - 23:52:56 MST