[squid-users] "All redirector processes busy."

Running Squid version 2.4.STABLE2 on Red Hat Linux 7.1, kernel 2.4.9-12.
Host has two Pentium III 1 Gigahertz processors, 512 Mb RAM and three
100 BaseTX NICs.

Over the course of today, 2001/12/11, following messages have been
appearing in cache.log:

2001/12/11 10:18:17| WARNING: All redirector processes are busy.
2001/12/11 10:18:17| WARNING: 10 pending requests queued
2001/12/11 10:18:17| Consider increasing the number of redirector processes in y
our config file.

The redirector program in question is squidGuard (filter). I've now
increased number of redirector processes to maximum (?) of 32. I'm
still getting messages in cache log such as:

2001/12/11 14:31:43| WARNING: All redirector processes are busy.
2001/12/11 14:31:43| WARNING: 32 pending requests queued
2001/12/11 14:31:43| Consider increasing the number of redirector processes in
your config file.

Using top, squid is something like: SIZE=386M, RSS=215M, SHARE=98.5M
The load average is something like: 0.64, 0.65, 0.68

Anybody any ideas why the redirector processes should be getting exhausted?

Kind Regards,

David Carson
Received on Tue Dec 11 2001 - 07:53:11 MST