[squid-users] fatal error: url_rewriter helpers are crashing too rapidly (?)

Hello,

I've been running squid-2.6stable6 quite happily for some time on a
32bit RHEL5 server. Today squid crashed and refused to come back up,
even after a reboot, with the error "FATAL: the url_rewriter helpers
are crashing too rapidly, need help!"

The full cache.log is as follows:

2007/08/30 11:42:10| Starting Squid Cache version 2.6.STABLE6 for
i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Process ID 3081
2007/08/30 11:42:10| With 1024 file descriptors available
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Using epoll for the IO loop
2007/08/30 11:42:10| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32782, FD 5
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Adding nameserver 192.168.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf
2007/08/30 11:42:10| helperOpenServers: Starting 20 'squidGuard' processes
2007/08/30 11:42:10| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 30
'ntlm_auth' processes
2007/08/30 11:42:10| helperOpenServers: Starting 5 'ntlm_auth' processes
2007/08/30 11:42:10| User-Agent logging is disabled.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Referer logging is disabled.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 65
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Target number of buckets: 393
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Using 8192 Store buckets
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every
3600/3600 sec
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (DIRTY)
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Using Least Load store dir selection
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Loaded Icons.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port
8081, FD 67.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 68.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Accepting SNMP messages on port 3401, FD 69.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WCCP Disabled.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Ready to serve requests.
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #20 (FD 25) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #19 (FD 24) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #14 (FD 19) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #18 (FD 23) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #17 (FD 22) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #16 (FD 21) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #15 (FD 20) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #13 (FD 18) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #12 (FD 17) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| WARNING: url_rewriter #11 (FD 16) exited
2007/08/30 11:42:10| Too few url_rewriter processes are running
FATAL: The url_rewriter helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!

I have tried upping url_rewrite_children from 4 to 20, and the same
thing happened when I tried starting squid.

Where can I start trying to figure this one out?

Thanks,

Gavin
Received on Thu Aug 30 2007 - 04:55:12 MDT