Re: Squid seems to "HANG UP"!

Sounds like you're running out of file-descriptors. This causes the
symptoms like the ones you are seeing.

D

Sarah Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> My squid server seems not to respond to requests after sometime of excellent
> operation.
>
> I have the latest linux server (slackware 4.0) running squids latest
> (version 2.2.STABLE4 ). There are about 100 pcs using this with an IE 4.0
> browser. The server runs on an Intel Pentium Pro 200 with cache size of
> about 3 GB. It has two NICs .. one is connected to the router (202.8.254.3)
> while the other to our LAN (172.16.12.254) where the PCs are connected. My
> problem is after sometime, the squid server seems not to respond anymore (as
> if it hanged) ... and it polls ... and after sometime .. a message pops up
> saying "A connection with the server could not be established". This
> normally happens if the proxy server is down.
>
> But when one of my machines (which is also connected to the router thus
> connected to the other NIC of my proxy - 202.8.254.3) use the proxy (using
> the other NICs ip .. say 202.8.254.3:8085) it is allowed to access the
> proxy.
>
> I have observed that after I have requested to users to stop using the
> internet for a while .... in a few minutes ... the proxy accepts connections
> again from the 172.16.12.254:8085 ....
>
> To summarize ... I run a Squid server with about 100 clients (using MS IE
> 4.0). Now
> and then when it's under heavy load it stops responding to new
> connections (the clients just time out). However this seems to only
> affect the one NIC with all the clients on it.
>
> I think somewhere ... I am running out of some resources which I still don't
> know what.
>
> I would appreciate it very much if u can help me on this. .
>
> Thanks ... and more power!
>
> Systems Administrator
> DBIT Systems, Inc., Philippines
> sarah_rodriguez@consultant.com
Received on Wed Sep 15 1999 - 18:08:07 MDT