Re: [squid-users] A very strange Squid 2.5.STABLE1 crash ...

Alexander Kiselev wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> i use Squid for a few years (it was Squid2.3.STABLE1 until middle of
> February, now it Squid2.5.STABLE1). Yesterday i faced with a strange problem
> in Squid.
> I restarted Squid with "-k reconfigure" option, the Squid normally restarted
> its services except SquidGuard which was failed to restart due to not enough
> memory on server (error "ipcCreate: fork: (12) Not enough space" ). I know
> this problem and i'm going to upgrade the proxy server. That was happened
> more than once earlier and i just fully stopped and started Squid in this
> case. I've made the same in this time, Squid normally started with "Ready to
> serve requests" in cache.log, BUT right after it Squid started a "Store
> rebuilding" process - i didn't see this process earlier. What i found in
> cache.log file:
> 2003/03/06 12:19:05| Ready to serve requests.
> 2003/03/06 12:19:12| Store rebuilding is 31.0% complete
> 2003/03/06 12:19:27| Store rebuilding is 47.4% complete
> 2003/03/06 12:19:43| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
> 2003/03/06 12:19:58| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
> 2003/03/06 12:20:15| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
> ...
> 2003/03/06 16:40:11| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
> 2003/03/06 16:40:14| diskHandleWrite: FD 55: disk write error: (27) File too
> large
> FATAL: Write failure -- check your disk space and cache.log
> Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally.
>
> After it, Squid was restarted by itself many times together with high
> increase of swap directories and swap.state file size, until i've stopped it
> manually, cleaned up the swap directories and recreated them (with "-z"
> option).
>
> What was the cause of this crash?

  Depends, on which platform/os/version ?
 
  Perhaps some of your log files got too big (>2Gb).

  M.

  
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Alex

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