Re: [squid-users] Squid exitin periodicaly ( Preparing for shut down after )

twinturbo_at_f2s.com wrote:
> Squid 2.5STABLE12 on SLES10
>
> I know this is quite an old version but it's on our production machine.
>

Yes. Please bug SLES about using a newer release.

> Anyway we have a strange issue where squid seems to be shunting down every 22
> minuets or so, the logs says Preparing for shut down after XXX requests.
>
> Now every minuet we do a "squid -k reconfigure" as we run squidGuard and it's
> config can change all the time. This has never seemed to be a problem in the
> past.
>
> I am building up a fresh machine to take over but would like to get this one
> working properly too.
>
> So far I have stoped the store.log being written and got the other logs rotating
> more than once a day to keep them small.
>
> I was previously getting errors about there being to few redirectors so I upped
> that to 30, I have now set it back down to 10 to see what happens.
>
> Rob

"Preparing for shut down after XXX requests" occurs when Squid receives
its proper shutdown signal. A clean/graceful shutdown proceeds to follow.

Amos

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