Re: [squid-users] too many processes

From: Marc Elsen <marc.elsen@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:28:40 +0200

tony schmitz wrote:
>
> Hi squid-users,
>
> I have a RedHat 7.2 server running squid 2.3.STABLE4
> It has been working fine for quite some time. I have noticed
> however, that squid processes are apparently not dying off.
>
> I currently show like, 176 processes just for squid.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why these are not dying off?
> And of course what to do to prevent this?
>
>
 Note that squid is a single process application, that does
 not fork for each http request.
 In Redhat multiple instances will be seen if you are using aufs
 as an option for the cache dir (these are then in fact aufs threads).

 Check cache.log , perhaps, it may give some pointers, on what
 is going on.

 M.
Received on Thu May 30 2002 - 07:28:43 MDT

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