Re: [squid-users] mysterious crashes

(Been away putting out other fires...)

By memory limit, do you mean cache_mem? That's set to the default that came with this package (CentOS 4.5, Squid 2.5) at 8 Mb.

No sign of gkrellmd but I might be looking in the right places for it.

Thanks.

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Hoover Chan chan_at_sacredsf.org
Technology Director
Schools of the Sacred Heart
2222 Broadway St.
San Francisco, CA 94115

----- "Pieter De Wit" <pieter_at_insync.za.net> wrote:

> 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 Mon Mar 23 2009 - 20:57:12 MDT