[squid-users] Squid uses all the cpu

My squid process recently started using all available cpu cycles and I cna't
figure out why. Looking at the FAQ I found:

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11.46 Squid uses 100% CPU
There may be many causes for this.
Andrew Doroshenko reports that removing /dev/null, or mounting a filesystem
with the nodev option, can cause Squid to use 100% of CPU. His suggested
solution is to ``touch /dev/null.''
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I checked and I do have /dev/null and I didn't see anything in /etc/vfstab
setting the nodev option for any of the file systems.

Here's some more information about the system.

last pid: 1175; load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
10:47:40
45 processes: 43 sleeping, 1 running, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 0.0% idle, 96.4% user, 3.4% kernel, 0.2% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 512M real, 184M swap in use, 702M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
  238 root 1 0 0 156M 155M run 294.5H 98.54% squid

$ uname -a
SunOS proxy 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine

$ /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -v
Squid Cache: Version 2.3.STABLE3

I've used "tunefs" to set the cache file system to "space" optimization
instead of "time". Before that I was running into disk issues.

thanks,
Bill
Received on Mon Aug 13 2001 - 09:51:02 MDT