Re: [squid-users] investigate squid eating 100% CPU

The current FreeBSD ports available for squid are squid31 and squid32
I'll be able to upgrade to the latest 3.2 but not further.

Youssef
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On Mar 26, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:

> The first step in debugging any problem like this is to upgrade to the latest version and see if it has been resolved.
> The current latest is Squid-3.3.3.
>
> Amos
>
> On 27/03/2013 1:33 a.m., Alexandre Chappaz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> you can activate the full debug
>> launch
>> squid -k debug
>> with the service running, and check what comes in the cache.log.
>>
>> squid -k parse will audit your config file. Look for WARNING in the
>> output of this command.
>>
>> the cachemanager can be usefull to see the actual activity of your squid :
>>
>> squidclient localhost mgr:5min
>>
>> gives you the last 5 min stats. (see if the n° of req/s is coherent
>> with what you expect )
>>
>>
>> Bonne chance
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/3/26 Youssef Ghorbal <djo_at_pasteur.fr>:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We have a Squid 3.1.23 running on a FreeBSD 8.3 (amd64)
>>> The proxy is used to handle web access for ~2500 workstations and in pure proxy/filter (squidGaurd) mode with no cache (all disk caching is disabled)
>>> It's not a tranparent/intercepting proxy, just a plain explicit proxy mode.
>>>
>>> What we see, is that the squid process is using 100% of CPU (userland CPU usage, not kernel) all the time. Even in late night when the whole traffic is very minimalistic.
>>>
>>> What I'm looking for is some advice on how to track down what is causing this CPU misbehaviour. Maybe it's some stupid config option not suitable for this kind of setup, maybe a bug etc.
>>> What would be the tools/methodology that I can use to profile the running process.
>>>
>>> Any help/suggestion would be really appreciated.
>>>
>>> Youssef Ghorbal
>>>
>>> squid -v
>>> Squid Cache: Version 3.1.23
>>> configure options: '--with-default-user=squid' '--bindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--sbindir=/usr/local/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/squid' '--localstatedir=/var/squid' '--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid' '--with-logdir=/var/log/squid' '--with-pidfile=/var/run/squid/squid.pid' '--enable-removal-policies=lru heap' '--disable-linux-netfilter' '--disable-linux-tproxy' '--disable-epoll' '--disable-translation' '--disable-ecap' '--disable-loadable-modules' '--enable-auth=basic digest negotiate ntlm' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=DB NCSA PAM MSNT SMB squid_radius_auth LDAP YP' '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=password ldap' '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user session unix_group wbinfo_group ldap_group' '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=smb_lm' '--enable-storeio=ufs diskd aufs' '--enable-disk-io=AIO Blocking DiskDaemon DiskThreads' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-icap-client' '--enable-kqueue' '--with-large-files' '--enable-stacktraces' '--disable-optimizations' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--mandir=/usr/local/man' '--infodir=/usr/local/info/' '--build=amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3' 'build_alias=amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-pipe -I/usr/local/include -g -g -DLDAP_DEPRECATED' 'LDFLAGS= -L/usr/local/lib' 'CPPFLAGS=' 'CXX=c++' 'CXXFLAGS=-pipe -I/usr/local/include -g -g -DLDAP_DEPRECATED' 'CPP=cpp' --with-squid=/wrkdirs/usr/ports/www/squid31/work/squid-3.1.23 --enable-ltdl-convenience
>>>
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Received on Tue Mar 26 2013 - 13:09:06 MDT