[squid-users] how to detect squid running away...

Hi All,

We installed Sun freeware squid-2.3.STABLE1-sol8-intel-local
on an Intel platform running Solaris 8 (RAM 512M). However we
noticed that the (squid) process running away from time to time,
as it failed to serve requests. Checking the squid processes:

# ps -lef |grep squid
 8 S squid 21345 21341 0 41 20 e2807810 177 e1b3347c Jun 20 ?
0:36 (unlinkd)
 8 S squid 21341 21340 2 39 20 e30d8818 121084 e2db91f0 Jun 20 ?
300:03 (squid)
 8 S squid 21340 1 0 81 20 e3083858 835 e30838c4 Jun 20 ?
0:00 /usr/local/squid/bin/squid

The (squid) process had 121084 pages, that was about ~470Mb,
so is there any system parameter I can setup to prevent
squid from running away?

Is there any other tool/script to detect running away squid process?

Also, when this happens, "squid -k shutdown" can only terminates
(unlinkd) process, we had to manually terminate the other 2 processes:
(squid) and /usr/local/squid/bin/squid, is there other better solution
to stop and start squid when it becomes this bad?

Many thanks in advance,
Hong
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 10:51:02 MDT