Re: Squid 2.2STABLE2 & Linux 2.2.8 Problem ...

> Olivier GOSSELET wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using squid for a while with more or less no problem ... except
> that we are filtering out a big banned sites list and that the load of
> our proxy increase day after day. We connect 1 Belgium schools to the
> Internet every day.
>
> First we decided to make a cluster of 3 PII 450 Mhz 2*4.5 GB on two
> SCSI-Controller.
>
> But for economical reason, maintenance reason, place .... we can not
> continue to add machine ... and this is not a good solution because
> the limitation is not disk or memory but CPU.
>
> So we decided to upgrade the machine to Dual PII 450 MHz.
>
> We are running Slackware 3.6 with kernel 2.2.8 wich support
> multiprocessor.
>
> The kernel upgrade seems to be OK
> Squid works on this machine for a while but sometimes the machine
> crash !!!
> Squid is the only running program on the machine.
>
> I am not sure it's a Squid problem because there is nothing in the
> Squid logs ... no logs on disk at all just a screen shot saying :
>
> divide error : 0000
> CPU : 1
> EIP : 0010 : [<c017009f>]
> EFLAGS : 00010246
>
> bla bla bla ... (too long to write)
>
> Kernel panic : Attempted to kill the idle task !
> In swapper task - not syncing.
>
> The only solution is to turn off the machine ...
> I am not a Linux guru so i do not understand the meaning and the
> possible reasons of this problem ...
>
> Does anobody runs Squid / Linux on a multiprocessor machine ... with
> or without this problem ...
> Does someone know a solution ?

I've seen some mentions of similar with linux 2.2.8. We are curently
trialling linux 2.2.7-ac2 on 2*Xeon/450 and 4*Xeon/450 boxen with no
earth-shaking problems (once, the network stopped responding, until we
rebooted. No other problems so far)

D
Received on Wed May 19 1999 - 15:44:17 MDT