Re: [squid-users] Squid3 just Died

Pieter,

I had to delete my cache. I didn't get any answers from the list and I
had a lot of people calling.

I did:
rm -r /squid/cache/*

it took over 30 minutes.
Then,
restarted squid (/etc/init.d/squid3 start) and it was doing the same: It
started and it just died without giving any errors.

I then decided to also delete, actually rename, access.log and store.log
files. This time when I restarted, it worked. I had to do it that way
because that was the only solution I found. I there is another way to
restore all the previous objects please let me know.

One more thing, What could have caused that problem? Will this happen
again in a couple of months?

Thanks

Pieter De Wit wrote:
> Well - something is killing it. It got a lot future than before, it stopped
> at 0.6% iirc last time ?
>
> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:42:52 -0400, "Wilson Hernandez - MSD, S. A."
> <wh_at_msdrd.com> wrote:
>> That i486 thing just might have been the original kernel. I don't know
>> why it says i486.
>>
>> I ran tail -f /var/log/squid/cache.log and noticed that squid tries to
>> rebuild the cache, it stops and restarts again:
>>
>> Store rebuilding is 10.1% complete
>>
>> I don't want to delete my cache. That's the only solutions I've found on
>> the internet:
>>
>> 1) Shutdown your squid server
>> squid -k shutdown
>>
>> 2) Remove the cache directory
>> rm -r /squid/cache/*
>>
>> 3) Re-Create the squid cache directory
>> squid -z
>>
>> 4) Start the squid
>>
>> My cache is pretty big and it would take a while to delete all the stuff
>> in there. Also, I will loose all that data from months of objects...
>>
>> Pieter De Wit wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Might be totally off here, but I noted your swap size is "large". Could
>> it
>>> be that the cache has more objects (in count and in byte count ?) than
>> can
>>> fit into a 32-bit counter ?
>>>
>>> I got to this by seeing that it crashes at the cache rebuild section as
>>> well as the fact the the build is i486.
>>>
>>> Like I said, might be *way* off but hey :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Pieter
>>>
>>> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:04:54 -0700, wh_at_msdrd.com wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> I came across something weird. Squid3 just stopped working, just dies
>>>> without any error message. My server was running as usual and all over
>> a
>>>> sudden users weren't getting internet. I checked if all the normal
>>>> processes were running and noticed squid wasn't. Now, I try to start
>> the
>>>> server and it starts and dies after a few seconds. Heres part of the
>>>> cache.log file:
>>>>
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for
>>>> i486-pc-linux-gnu...
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Process ID 4063
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| With 1024 file descriptors available
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 33054, FD 8
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.11 from squid.conf
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.21 from squid.conf
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923
>>>> objects
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Target number of buckets: 393846
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Using 524288 Store buckets
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Max Mem size: 102400 KB
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid/cache (DIRTY)
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Using Least Load store dir selection
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Current Directory is /
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Loaded Icons.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections
>> at
>>>> 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 15.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| HTCP Disabled.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| WCCP Disabled.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Ready to serve requests.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for
>>>> i486-pc-linux-gnu...
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Process ID 4066
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| With 1024 file descriptors available
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 33054, FD 8
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.11 from squid.conf
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.21 from squid.conf
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923
>>>> objects
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Target number of buckets: 393846
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Using 524288 Store buckets
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Max Mem size: 102400 KB
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid/cache (DIRTY)
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Using Least Load store dir selection
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Current Directory is /
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Loaded Icons.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections
>> at
>>>> 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 15.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| HTCP Disabled.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| WCCP Disabled.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Ready to serve requests.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:12| Store rebuilding is 0.6% complete
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for
>>>> i486-pc-linux-gnu...
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Process ID 4069
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| With 1024 file descriptors available
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 33054, FD 8
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.11 from squid.conf
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.21 from squid.conf
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923
>>>> objects
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Target number of buckets: 393846
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Using 524288 Store buckets
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Max Mem size: 102400 KB
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid/cache (DIRTY)
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Using Least Load store dir selection
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Current Directory is /
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Loaded Icons.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections
>> at
>>>> 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 15.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| HTCP Disabled.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| WCCP Disabled.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Ready to serve requests.
>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:18| Store rebuilding is 0.6% complete
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please help. Your help will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advanced.
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>

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