Re: [squid-users] dead squid, Still looking,

On Monday 29 August 2005 23:46, John R. Van Lanen, Network Operations - TCCSA wrote:
> Start debug level 1 in squid.conf, The problem about strace, is squid will
> start another process, that new process it the one that it can't find and then
> dies. This happens in milli seconds. No time to enter the command or know
> which process will it be. Squid from what I see always starts two processes, a
> main and another. The other is the one it can't find therefore making squid
> die.
>
> Example
> squid dead but pid file exists
> squid: ERROR Could not send signal 0 to process 5530: (3) No such
> process,

man strace (you need -f option).
 
> This process was generated seconds before it attempts to send signal 0 to the
> process.
>
> Could not possiblely do a trace before it happens.
>
> Sorry if this is confusing but it's confusing me. I know other people run squid
> with more users than I do on more limited machines.
>
> > The squid cache has reached it size limit and is being rebuilt to
> > compensate...

Interesting. My squid runs for months without restarts.

My squid.conf (see attached) has:

cache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid-2 512 32 32

for 0.5 Gb cache size.

> > You could load squid in debug mode. There are a few debug mode options
> > available for you...
> > Just use squid -? to get a list of options.

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