[squid-users] Problem with squid... Dirty Cache constant restart loop....

Hi all.

Been running squid for years, never really had any problems till today.

Everything seems to have been running fine till just before 12pm..

Then someone comes in and asks if the net is down.... Sure enough squid has
died and is no longer running on the server.

I do a service squid start

Try to connect to the internet again... Nothing. No username/password
request etc.

Tail -f /var/log/squid/cache.log I get...

2005/07/25 15:10:14| Starting Squid Cache version 2.4.STABLE6 for
i686-pc-linux-gnu...
2005/07/25 15:10:14| Process ID 5379
2005/07/25 15:10:14| With 1024 file descriptors available
2005/07/25 15:10:14| Performing DNS Tests...
2005/07/25 15:10:14| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
2005/07/25 15:10:14| DNS Socket created on FD 4
2005/07/25 15:10:14| Adding nameserver 127.0.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf
2005/07/25 15:10:14| helperOpenServers: Starting 20 'squirm' processes
2005/07/25 15:10:14| helperOpenServers: Starting 15 'ncsa_auth' processes
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 44
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Swap maxSize 61440000 KB, estimated 4726153 objects
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Target number of buckets: 236307
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Using 262144 Store buckets
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Max Swap size: 61440000 KB
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Rebuilding storage in /var/squid/cache (DIRTY)
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Using Least Load store dir selection
2005/07/25 15:10:17| Set Current Directory to /var/squid/cache

Repeated over and over and over etc.

Ok, I figure that the cached files are not happy,

So I remove the cache files, then set them back up using -z still the same
problem.

Rebooted the box, removed squirm and ncsa_auth, still the same... Im looking
to remove the cache next to see if that helps it.

Looked on google etc for this problem and no one seems to have an answer....

Any ideas?

Many Thanks

Ross
Received on Mon Jul 25 2005 - 07:26:55 MDT