Re: [squid-users] External ACL Problem WILL NOT SHUTDOWN NICELY!!!!

I am still trying to find time to diagnose this one and is one of many
small reasons where there is no 2.5.STABLE2 yet.

Please register a bug entry for this problem to have it correcly
recorded and tracked.

Regards
Henrik

On Monday 24 February 2003 23.52, admin wrote:
> I know I have posted about this a couple of days ago, but no help
> has really been given. I have tried the SQUID build
> from February 23rd, and I still get an external ACL problem when
> shutting down..
>
> I start the external ACL with this in the squid.conf
>
> external_acl_type referer concurrency=45 %DST %{Referer}
> /opt/squid/libexec/referer.pl
> acl REFERER external referer
>
> It does have 45 instances of it running when squid stops, and each
> of our squid boxes do get a LOT of traffic. They each constantly
> push about 15 Mbit of data.
>
> Anyway, when I do a squid -k shutdown I get THOUSANDS PER SECOND
> error messages in cache.log saying:
>
> 2003/02/23 21:50:02| externalAclLookup: 'referer' queue overload
> 2003/02/23 21:50:02| externalAclLookup: 'referer' queue overload
> 2003/02/23 21:50:02| externalAclLookup: 'referer' queue overload
> 2003/02/23 21:50:02| externalAclLookup: 'referer' queue overload
> 2003/02/23 21:50:02| externalAclLookup: 'referer' queue overload
>
> And I will keep getting this message until I do a
>
> killall squid
>
> I know there have supposed to have been fixes to this in the last
> few days, but when I build I don't see it. I simply can NOT shut
> down cleanly which means I get dirty cache everytime?? Is this a
> problem with external ACLs that people know about and plan on
> fixing, or should I be out looking for an alternative?
>
> I will also willing to pay to have this problem fixed if someone
> knows. We make little changes to our squid all the time and we
> need a reliable way to shutdown the server.
>
> Thanks to all!
>
> Matt
Received on Mon Feb 24 2003 - 18:45:34 MST