"Stuart Clark" <newsgroup1@spacelink.com.au> writes:
> Hi
>
> I have had a perfectly good squid box running for about 4 years I
> started off with 1 X 4 gig seagate scsi (1999)
>
> I added 1 X 9 gig seagate scsi (2000) by adding another cache_dir entry,
> squid -z etc..etc.
>
> This went faultlessly
>
> Now I add in addition 1 X 80 gig Seagate ide and am getting strange
> lockup problems after 25% full.
>
> Can you please help me solve this??
>
> Clues:
> When I add the cache_dir line for the ide, restart, then do a top, the
> mem(ram) usage goes ballistic to 97% and stays at 97%, also I can hear
> one of the scsi drives working like crazy.
>
> Then I comment the cache_dir line for the ide out, restart, and it loads
> up fine, like normal ie: cpu and mem usage up for about a minute then
> drops off to wait for a request
>
> I did find a few bad journal entries (sdb1 and hda1) when I did an fsck,
> which stopped the crashing for a while but this didn't fix the ide/mem
> usage problem. I don't know whether this bit has to do with the cause or
> is an outcome of the ide/mem problem.
>
> SYSTEM = Aopen mx5s, 900 celeron, 256 ram, 256 swap, Redhat 7.3,
> squid-2.4.STABLE6-6.7.3.i386.rpm, 4gig scsi, 9 gig scsi, 80gig ATA100
> ide, all ext3.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.11
I think you don't have the RAM to run with 80 gig cache. Your system
is probably swapping like crazy.
-- Never argue with a fool in public. People might not see the difference.Received on Mon Jan 06 2003 - 05:28:30 MST
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