Strange crashes on Tru-64 Unix

We recently upgraded our Compaq server to Tru-64 Unix 4.0f (This was
formerly Digital Unix). We had upgraded to squid 2.2 Stable 4 prior to this
and it seemed to be working OK on version 4.0b.

After the upgrade we struck 2 problems. One was with the default route off
campus being reconfigured by malformed packets. We have applied a patch from
Compaq for this.

The second problem we still do not have a solution. After running for a week
or so squid dies claiming that it is out of disk space even though the disk
is only 75% full. I have even tried reducing the cache size significantly
but we have started getting these crashes again.

After a crash we have to usually delete the swap.state file, or use a
completely new cache directory to get going again. Deleting the swap.state
file doesn't seem like a good thing as I did see the cache size get far too
big once after doing that. There seemed to be files in the cache that
weren't getting removed.

My feeling at the moment is that we have a problem with advfs rather than
squid. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any ideas?

My set up is
Squid 2.2 Stable 4
Tru-64 Unix 4.0f
Cache size 6Gb on a 8Gb advfs volume

I have recompiled squid on the new OS (and we rebuilt gcc as well).

Error messages from the cache.log file....
Squid Cache (Version 2.2.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
1999/08/25 12:22:58| Starting Squid Cache version 2.2.STABLE4 for
alpha-dec-osf4 .0...
1999/08/25 12:22:58| Process ID 2133
1999/08/25 12:22:58| With 4096 file descriptors available
1999/08/25 12:22:58| Performing DNS Tests...
1999/08/25 12:22:58| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
1999/08/25 12:22:58| helperOpenServers: Starting 10 'dnsserver'
processes
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Swap maxSize 5120000 KB, estimated 393846 objects
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Target number of buckets: 7876
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Using 8192 Store buckets, replacement runs every 10
seconds
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Max Mem size: 69632 KB
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Max Swap size: 5120000 KB
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Store logging disabled
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #0 (DIRTY)
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Set Current Directory to /www/cache
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Loaded Icons.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Accepting HTTP connections on port 81, FD 36.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Accepting ICP messages on port 3131, FD 37.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Ready to serve requests.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| diskHandleWrite: FD 12: disk write error: (28) No space
lef t on device

1999/08/25 12:22:59| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #0 (DIRTY)
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Set Current Directory to /www/cache
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Loaded Icons.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Accepting HTTP connections on port 81, FD 36.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Accepting ICP messages on port 3131, FD 37.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| Ready to serve requests.
1999/08/25 12:22:59| diskHandleWrite: FD 12: disk write error: (28) No
space lef t on device FATAL: Write failure -- check your disk space and
cache.log Squid Cache (Version 2.2.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.

Thanks, Mark.
Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 15:52:56 MDT