vanishing coordinator process in squid 3.2

Hi,
I’m running 3.2.0.14…..build …91 on a number of servers and I’ve
noticed that fairly frequently the coordinator process vanishes.
There’s nothing in the logs to say that (in this case) kid9 ( 8 worker
processes) terminated for any particular reason. I still have worker
processes active and they still seem to be processing connections.

At the moment I’m killing off the worker processes using kill -9 and
just restarting everything with /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid –SYC

So

1). Anything I can switch on logging wise to see why the process is
vanishing
2). Is there a better way of restarting the coord process than killing
everything and starting again?

Rgds
Alex

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Received on Fri Feb 03 2012 - 11:23:15 MST