Re: [squid-users] New exploit? Two squid proxies simultaneously spike to 99 percent CPU utilization.

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:58:54 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Spam wrote:

> I use Big Sister to monitor my networks. Earlier today, I began getting
> CPU utilization messages on two of my proxies. Each proxy was reporting
> 99 percent utilization, caused by the squid process. These = proxies are
> located at completely different businesses located on opposite ends = of
> town, and they have no affiliation with each other.

This harmless problem have now been identified and fixed thanks to the
hints collected about MSN not being reachable at the time etc.

   http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.5/bugs/

The problem exists in all Squid-2.5 releases, maybe earlier as well.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Oct 14 2004 - 16:58:56 MDT

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