Re: [squid-users] Log file roll over Issues

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:00:34AM +0000, Justin Lawler wrote:
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> We're having issues with log file roll over in squid - when squid is under heavy load and the log files are very big, triggering a log file roll over (squid -k rotate) makes squid unresponsive, and has to be killed manually with a kill -9.
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> Has this ever been seen before?
>

Do you have the logs on a ZFS volume? Are you using logadm to rotate
the logs? If yes to both of these, are your patches up to date? There
was a bug in ZFS/logadm that caused squid to hang trying to write to a
new log file, you may be getting bitten by that.

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