Re: [squid-users] squid 2.4

If you are running Squid as a transparent cache under Linux-2.4, make
sure you use the Linux-2.4 native iptables command to redirect the
traffic to Squid, not ipchains with the ipchains emulation modules..

ipchains REDIRECT is known to be broken in most Linux-2.4 versions,
slowly leaking memory, and there is recent reports where ipchains
REDIRECT has been causing kernel oopses in later Linux-2.4 versions
where the memory leak is supposed to be fixed. The iptables REDIRECT is
stable as far as I know.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer

Graeme Wood wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Vicky Shrestha wrote:
>
> > Hello henrik,
> >
> > I am having this strange problem with squid2.4STABLE1.5 and
> > squid2.4STABLE3 and redhat 7.2.
> >
> > I am using transparent proxy with a alteon layer4 switch.
> >
> > The problem is the proxies with redhat 7.2 and squid 2.4 crashes after
> > the while.It doesn't really crash but when we do
> > telnet proxy2 3128
> > aa
> > \r
> > \r
> > it takes a long time to respond and the layer 4 switch
> > thinks that the proxy is down and doesn't send any request to the
> > proxy.but the proxy with redhat 6.2 and squid-2.2.STABLE5.1-16 works
> > fine.
> >
> > It was working perfectly fine few days ago.
> >
> > I have tried increasing the file-max, I also removed sibling,also
> > purged the cache,etc.
>
> I think you may find that it has been slowly leaking memory. I am
> experiencing a similar problem and it has been since the upgrade to RH7.2
> and 2.4.STABLE3.
>
> Cheers.
>
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Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 13:56:41 MST