Re: [squid-users] Squid3 just Died

Wilson Hernandez - MSD, S. A. wrote:
> Pieter,
>
> I had to delete my cache. I didn't get any answers from the list and I
> had a lot of people calling.
>
> I did:
> rm -r /squid/cache/*
>
> it took over 30 minutes.
> Then,
> restarted squid (/etc/init.d/squid3 start) and it was doing the same: It
> started and it just died without giving any errors.
>
> I then decided to also delete, actually rename, access.log and store.log
> files. This time when I restarted, it worked. I had to do it that way
> because that was the only solution I found. I there is another way to
> restore all the previous objects please let me know.
>
> One more thing, What could have caused that problem? Will this happen
> again in a couple of months?

Hmm, if it was the logging drive running out of space yes it might
happen again. Check for core.* files in the squid home directory.

Amos

>
> Thanks
>
> Pieter De Wit wrote:
>> Well - something is killing it. It got a lot future than before, it
>> stopped
>> at 0.6% iirc last time ?
>>
>> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:42:52 -0400, "Wilson Hernandez - MSD, S. A."
>> <wh_at_msdrd.com> wrote:
>>> That i486 thing just might have been the original kernel. I don't
>>> know why it says i486.
>>>
>>> I ran tail -f /var/log/squid/cache.log and noticed that squid tries
>>> to rebuild the cache, it stops and restarts again:
>>>
>>> Store rebuilding is 10.1% complete
>>>
>>> I don't want to delete my cache. That's the only solutions I've found
>>> on the internet:
>>>
>>> 1) Shutdown your squid server
>>> squid -k shutdown
>>>
>>> 2) Remove the cache directory
>>> rm -r /squid/cache/*
>>>
>>> 3) Re-Create the squid cache directory
>>> squid -z
>>>
>>> 4) Start the squid
>>>
>>> My cache is pretty big and it would take a while to delete all the
>>> stuff in there. Also, I will loose all that data from months of
>>> objects...
>>>
>>> Pieter De Wit wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Might be totally off here, but I noted your swap size is "large". Could
>>> it
>>>> be that the cache has more objects (in count and in byte count ?) than
>>> can
>>>> fit into a 32-bit counter ?
>>>>
>>>> I got to this by seeing that it crashes at the cache rebuild section as
>>>> well as the fact the the build is i486.
>>>>
>>>> Like I said, might be *way* off but hey :)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Pieter
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:04:54 -0700, wh_at_msdrd.com wrote:
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>
>>>>> I came across something weird. Squid3 just stopped working, just dies
>>>>> without any error message. My server was running as usual and all over
>>> a
>>>>> sudden users weren't getting internet. I checked if all the normal
>>>>> processes were running and noticed squid wasn't. Now, I try to start
>>> the
>>>>> server and it starts and dies after a few seconds. Heres part of the
>>>>> cache.log file:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for
>>>>> i486-pc-linux-gnu...
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Process ID 4063
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| With 1024 file descriptors available
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 33054, FD 8
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.11 from squid.conf
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.21 from squid.conf
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923
>>>>> objects
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Target number of buckets: 393846
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Using 524288 Store buckets
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Max Mem size: 102400 KB
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid/cache
>>>>> (DIRTY)
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Using Least Load store dir selection
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Current Directory is /
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Loaded Icons.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections
>>> at
>>>>> 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 15.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| HTCP Disabled.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| WCCP Disabled.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:07| Ready to serve requests.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for
>>>>> i486-pc-linux-gnu...
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Process ID 4066
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| With 1024 file descriptors available
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 33054, FD 8
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.11 from squid.conf
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.21 from squid.conf
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923
>>>>> objects
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Target number of buckets: 393846
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Using 524288 Store buckets
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Max Mem size: 102400 KB
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid/cache
>>>>> (DIRTY)
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Using Least Load store dir selection
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Current Directory is /
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Loaded Icons.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections
>>> at
>>>>> 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 15.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| HTCP Disabled.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| WCCP Disabled.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:11| Ready to serve requests.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:12| Store rebuilding is 0.6% complete
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for
>>>>> i486-pc-linux-gnu...
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Process ID 4069
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| With 1024 file descriptors available
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 33054, FD 8
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.11 from squid.conf
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Adding nameserver 200.42.213.21 from squid.conf
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923
>>>>> objects
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Target number of buckets: 393846
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Using 524288 Store buckets
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Max Mem size: 102400 KB
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid/cache
>>>>> (DIRTY)
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Using Least Load store dir selection
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Current Directory is /
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Loaded Icons.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections
>>> at
>>>>> 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 15.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| HTCP Disabled.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| WCCP Disabled.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:17| Ready to serve requests.
>>>>> 2008/12/09 22:03:18| Store rebuilding is 0.6% complete
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Please help. Your help will be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advanced.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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