Re: [squid-users] WARNING: swapfile header inconsistent with available data

On 26/06/2014 1:06 a.m., Jasper Van Der Westhuizen wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm running a compiled version of Squid 3.4.4 and I'm having some
> strange behavior lately. I have a two node cluster load balancing via a
> F5 LB and at times one of the two servers will simply not complete a
> connection. Squid is running, the logs keep rolling(although much slower
> and most entries are from it's sibling cache, but no connections go
> through. A restart of Squid fixes this.
>
> As a matter of interest, in my cache logs I see many lines like these
>
> 2014/06/25 14:52:58 kid1| WARNING: swapfile header inconsistent with
> available data
> 2014/06/25 14:53:28 kid1| WARNING: swapfile header inconsistent with
> available data
>
> On one of my servers I cleaned out the cache, as well as the swap.state
> file but it didn't make a difference.
>
> squid -v output.
>
> Squid Cache: Version 3.4.4
> configure options: '--prefix=/usr/local/squid'
> '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid3.4.4/' '--enable-follow-x-forwarded-for'
> '--with-logdir=/var/log/squid/' '-with-pidfile=/var/run/squid.pid'
> '--with-swapdir=/var/cache/squid/' '--with-large-files'
> '--disable-strict-error-checking' '--with-default-user=squid'
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this problem?

Are you using SMP workers with an AUFS, UFS or diskd cache_dir?
 UFS/AUFS/diskd are not SMP-aware and this is how it shows up when two
or more workers are over-writing cache disk files and corrupting each
others records.

Amos
Received on Thu Jun 26 2014 - 06:59:50 MDT