Re: Redirector problem

Why your redirectors are using that much CPU I do not know, but for it
to work you need to disable STDIO buffering.

In main, call

  setvbuf(stdout, NULL);

If still having problems, try attaching a debugger to one of your helper
processes to se what it is doing.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Jens-Peter wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> 
> 
> We have written a small C program that works as a redirector for Squid
> 2.3 Stable 1.
> 
> 
> 
> The C program seems to work ok. I basically looks like this:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> void die(int x) {
> 
>   quitflag=1;
> 
>   exit(0);
> 
> }
> 
> 
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> 
>   /* Set up signal handlers to quit correctly */
> 
>   signal(SIGPIPE, die);
> 
>   signal(SIGHUP, die);
> 
> 
> 
>   while (!quitflag) {
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>     fgets(st,1024, stdin);
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>     if (quitflag) exit(0);
> 
>             /* handle requests */
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>   }
> 
>   return 0;
> 
> }
> 
> 
> 
> Squid is configured to start 10 redirectors at a time.
> 
> The problem is, that I often discover 10 redirectors using approx 10%
> CPU each. This makes the proxy very slow, and I guess that the
> redirectors are really just looping. What has happened here? Did Squid
> in someway try to shut down the redirectors with another signal?
> 
> 
> 
> Any clues would be appreciated!
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Jens-Peter Vraa Jensen