Re: [squid-users] mysterious crashes

Hi Hoover,

Just a thought - what is the memory limit set to in squid and are other
services like gkrellmd running ?

Cheers,

Pieter

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:43:17 -0700 (PDT), Hoover Chan <chan_at_sacredsf.org>
wrote:
> It looks like Squid is what's crashing (I left a terminal session open
with
> "top" running) but it's dragging the whole OS down with it to the point
> where the only way out is to reset or power cycle the computer.
>
> Very frustrating.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Hoover Chan chan_at_sacredsf.org
> Technology Director
> Schools of the Sacred Heart
> 2222 Broadway St.
> San Francisco, CA 94115
>
>
> ----- "Rick Chisholm" <rchisholm_at_parallel42.ca> wrote:
>
>> might be worthwhile to run memtest86 against your server to rule out
>> memory issues, esp. since you appear to have clear logs. Is squid
>> crashing or is the OS locking up?
>>
>> Hoover Chan wrote:
>> > Hi, I'm new to this mailing list and relatively new to managing
>> Squid.
>> >
>> > I'm running a Squid cache using version 2.5 and 1 Gb of RAM. I'm
>> running into a problem where the system crashes so hard that the only
>> way to bring it back up is to power cycle the server. Subsequent
>> examination of the log files don't reveal any diagnostic information.
>> The logs seem to show that the system is running just fine without
>> incident.
>> >
>> > Any thoughts on what to look at? It's happening at least once a week
>> now.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------
>> > Hoover Chan chan_at_sacredsf.org
>> > Technology Director
>> > Schools of the Sacred Heart
>> > 2222 Broadway St.
>> > San Francisco, CA 94115
>> >
>> >
>> >
Received on Tue Mar 10 2009 - 22:51:32 MDT