Re: [squid-users] mysterious crashes

Was able to rule out hardware problems. Not RAM nor disk drive.

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

----- "johan firdianto" <johanfirdi_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Try do memoery test, you could using fedora installation DVD, there's
> menu for memory testing.
> Some weeks ago, we face the same problem, squid suddenly was
> terminated. And the problem is at memory. There were many error in
> chip.
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:50 AM, 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 - 20:58:07 MDT