possible Solaris oddity ?

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Here's something weird which has been happening on one of the JANET
top level caches. From time to time Squid tries to create a new cache
object, but we end up with a root owned file in the relevant cache
swap directory (we run Squid as a special user) and Squid barfs.

[As a meta comment I think it might be better if Squid tried an
alternative name, and/or tried to unlink or rename an existing file
which it couldn't open. Looks like (at the moment) we just try and
open the swap file for writing and bomb out if this fails.]

FWIW, this is on an Ultra 1 with :-
  Solaris 2.6
  recommended patches
  Squid 1.NOVM.18 + USE_POLL + ALLOW_UNDERSCORES

Anyone else experiencing this ? I was wondering if the solar flares
were especially bad over here just now or something... :-)

I should say that we've just upgraded to 1.NOVM.20 to see if this
makes any difference. My intuition is that we're simply stressing
Solaris too much, and it can't cope. It would be interesting to hear
if anyone else has had similiar experiences.

Ciao!

Martin

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Received on Thu Feb 05 1998 - 06:53:40 MST