Re: [squid-users] Squid Fails on Reconfigure

there might be a common denominator here - this is happening on a Dell
SC1435, dual-core Opteron 2212... maybe it's an AMD thing. That may
change my plans for another server.

ian j hart wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 December 2008 14:40:19 Rick Chisholm wrote:
>
> Sorry I can't offer a solution but I can confirm this as an issue.
>
> I used to get this on our old work hardware;
> CPU AMD athlon 2100+ (single core at 1733Mhz IIRC) PC3200 DDR.
>
> Since upgrading (Q6600 quad core at 2.4Ghz, DDR2 667Mhz?) I'm not getting this
> any more. [Rubs lucky rubber chicken to avoid the kiss of death].
>
> This suggests it may be a subtle timing issue which will be tricky to find.
>
> I got into the habit of running top after the reconfig. If one of the squid
> owned processes hits 100% CPU, kill with extreme prejudice. Actually I still
> do this.
>
> IIRC it was the old squid process which did this, but I could easily be wrong.
> If you can confirm that it may help one of the developers to find the
> problem.
>
> HTH
>

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