Re: [squid-users] Squid getting too big?

On 03 Aug 2001 09:18:57 -0400, Mike Diggins wrote:
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> Are you saying you have to restart squid daily? That scares me.

I know. :-/

> What happens if you don't?

On my machine (Irix-6.5) it grows up to 1.8 GB and then it dies. Lucky
me, i run it from RunCache so it's automatically restarted.

But, with such a large process, all kind of weird things happen. For
example, i'm forced to use the old external DNS resolvers (dnsserver),
because i have to follow the resolv.conf search path, and Squid cannot
do that with the internal resolver. But, when the process is so huge, if
a dnsserver dies, it cannot be restarted (the machine doesn't have
resources to fork/exec a 2 GB process!).
So, after a while (3...6 days), instead of 32 dnsserver's i have only 1
or 2. The dns queue gets overloaded, the users start to experience all
kind of DNS-related errors, and all the hell breaks loose.

I usually end up restarting Squid. :-(

-- 
Florin Andrei