Re: Cache.log error message

Hi Dave

Thanx for the info! Will check out the BSDI site and mailing list.

Cheerio
Meng-Chong

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Dave Martin wrote:

> 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:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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...
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dave Martin Netcetera, Inc. dpm@netcetera.com
> "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>

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)
Received on Tue Feb 29 2000 - 00:20:39 MST