RE: [squid-users] REPOST: HELP! WARNING: failed to unpack meta data

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Mark Pelkoski wrote:

>> Henrik,
>>
>> If you were getting these errors, how would you T-shoot this????
>>
>>
>> I just built this box about two weeks ago. It has 4 separate diskd
>> stores for cache. I get about 20 - 30 " WARNING: failed to unpack
>> meta data" messages per MINUTE in the cache.log file. I have rebuilt
>> the cache several times with "squid -z" that did not help. I even
>> commented out one cache_dir directive at a time in my squid.conf,
>> thinking it was related to a bad store on one of my four disks.
>> This is not the case. It didn't matter which store it was using.
>> What is the best way to T-shoot this? Is it possible that a faulty
>> stick of memory can cause this? There are no entries in my
>> /var/log/messages log. TIA

>Are you getting any cache hits at all? Or is every (potential)
>cache hit resulting in the failed-to-unpack error?
>
>Duane W.

Duane,
Thank you for your response! I have a 34% hit rate. About the same for
the server that is not producing these errors.

-Mark
Received on Mon Mar 15 2004 - 15:29:37 MST