Re: Squid 1.2 eating CPU time

I am running Squid 1.2.beta22+ICMP+cache digests

My problem isn't with loading. Squid as usual is normally not taking
enough CPU to even show up in top, and only takes up to a few % or so
while handling connections. This is what I expect to see *all* the time.
The trouble is that after a few days of running (no magic number as far as
I can tell) Squid starts to use 99.9% CPU and just stay at that level
until I restart it. During this time Squid is running millions of select()
calls according to cachemgr, although these calls seem to be very fast
(cachemgr reports the time spent to be about 0.4 mS or so per call). It
looks to me like Squid is getting stuck in a loop somewhere, but I don't
know the code anywhere near well enough to go hunting for a bug.

Another message later on says that this problem is a bug in beta22 that is
caused by a queued ICP packet never being sent.

        -Bill

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Bill Wichers wrote:
>
> > Squid is eating LOADS and LOADS of CPU time (99.9% according to top), and
>
>
> I can't see the same behaviour.
>
> When idle almost no CPU is used (it is not shown on the top screen).
>
> When given some work (~6 requests/second) it still does not show up as
> using any CPU.
>
> When given a lot of work (~70 request/second) it uses about 50% of the
> CPU.
>
> This is on a Pentium 133.
>
>
> How is your Squid configured & compiled?
>
> ---
> Henrik Nordström
> Sparetime Squid Hacker
>
Received on Sat Jun 20 1998 - 20:37:10 MDT