RE: [squid-users] Squid Hang Problem...

If squid is configured to use a redirector, which is in turn a perl script,
it is quite possible for the perl script to kill the squid process, as it
will spawn children which will consume memory e.t.c Best way to test this
is to backup your squid.conf file, then edit it to not use the redirector
(look for the redirect_program line and put a # in front of it).

Regards,
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2002 3:51pm
To: Ray Collazo
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Hang Problem...

Squid doesn't use perl for anything. But then you're suggesting that
the perl upgrade kills your server entirely at random intervals, not
just Squid.

It just isn't possible for a perl upgrade to damage a bunch of software
that doesn't even use perl. You've got another problem entirely,
possibly faulty hardware.

Ray Collazo wrote:
> Hello there! I just joined the list after searching the Archives, in
> hopes that someone may have found an answer to a problem that other
> people seem to have but have not had a definite solution to correct
> it:
>
> I've been running Squid on our linux gateway since March, in
> conjunction with Dansguardian (for Content filtering). Recently, I
> upgraded my PERL distribution, and ever since then I've been
> experiencing random hangs in Squid: It works for a while (A Day, an
> hour, a week, several weeks), and then for no apparent reason it just
> stops taking requests, and all my client machines can no longer
> communicate with it! (No dns, no ftp, no nothing!) The gateway
> machine is still running fine, after I reboot Squid works fine from
> there. I look at the logs and there doesnt seem to be any glaring
> error... Any Ideas of where I should start troubleshooting at?
>
> Ray

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