Re: [squid-users] Squid3 just Died

Amos,

I checked all the squid3 directories:
squid3: /usr/sbin/squid3 /etc/squid3 /usr/lib/squid3 /usr/share/squid3

and didn't find any core.* files. I even did a

/etc/squid3# whereis core
core: /usr/share/man/man5/core.5.gz

and it didn't find anything significant.

I installed squid3 on debian with apt-get install squid3. Looks like
debian doesn't have a current version of squid3 other than PRE5. I will
download it from the website and install it from source.

I don't think the logging drive was running out of space because Is a
pretty big drive and partition. What can other thing make squid act like
this?

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Wilson Hernandez - MSD, S. A. wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Hmm, if it was the logging drive running out of space yes it might
> happen again. Check for core.* files in the squid home directory.
>
> Amos
>
>>
>> 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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