[squid-users] Re: Can't Kill Squid Process

Almost certainly bad hardware or a broken OS kernel version.

Start by running suitable hardware tests such as memtest86.

Regards
Henrik

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, WA Support wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Redhat Linux 7.1 system running kernel 2.4.18-26.7 under ext2
> type file system.
>
> I am running Version 3.0-PRE3-20030924 with '--enable-async-io'
> '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=NCSA' switches set at compile.
>
> I also have squidGuard-1.2.0 setup as a redirector.
>
> It runs fine for about a week normally, but then starts corrupting
> memory and gets to a point where I can't even kill the squid process.
> That is, '/etc/rc.d/init.d/squid stop' and 'kill -s 9' on the squid pid
> do not kill the process.
>
> I have to reboot my system to kill squid, but when I reboot, I always
> have to run e2fsck to fix corrputed inodes and data blocks.
>
> Does anyone know what might be going on here?
>
> Thanks,
> Murrah Boswell
>
Received on Tue Oct 28 2003 - 13:33:40 MST