Re: [squid-users] while rotating log files DNSSERVER becomes defunct (part 2)

Hi, Henrik

Thanks for yr reply. I do see this problem after when I compied squid
with
--disable-internal-dns option.

Just for curiosity, why does squid restart DNSSERVER while rotating ?

Thanks
Jigar

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> On Thursday 05 September 2002 23.10, Jigar Rasalawala wrote:
>
> > If the DNSSERVER pending queue is overloaded by some how ( because
> > of DNS server is down for a while,
> > or because of not running enoguh no. of DNSSERVER processes ), and
> > I try to rotate log file,
> > It might cause the problem.
> >
> > Does it seem logical ? Any hint or suggestion appriciated..
>
> Should not make any difference. A new set of helpers will be started,
> and the old set of helpers will terminate when finished with what
> they were doing.
>
> The code that reaps exited child processes (defunct) is fully
> independent of this or pretty much anything else in Squid..
>
> Do you always see the problem, or does it start all of a sudden?
>
> Note: once you start getting defunct processes after a rotate I would
> expect future rotates to keep leaving defunct processes.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Thu Sep 05 2002 - 16:35:31 MDT