I have have had the same problem.
In my situation the logfile "access.log" became to big.
Since I rotate this file every night the problem was solved.
I've searched long for it, I takes a month before I found this solution.
Regards,
Sander Winkel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethy H. Brito" <ethy@inexo.com.br>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: [squid-users] CPU consumption
>
> Dear squiders
>
> Last saturday my squid stopped responding. (don't know why)
> Today I had the chance to investigate the problem. I found nothing.
> Squid simply consumes all CPU (99%) and stop responding.
> I see no I/O with vmstat, no memory consumption with top.
> I restarted it (-k shutdown and RunCache launches it again) and it works
> for a few minutes and the hole thing starts again.
>
> Environment:
>
> Squid 2.5 today's snapshot (it was 2.4 stable-2 until this morning -
> same problem with both versions)
> Linux Slackware 8.1 kernel 2.4.18
> Intel PII 350Mhz w/256M RAM
>
> Any clues?
> Help desperatly wanted
>
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>
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