Re: Strange crashes on Tru-64 Unix

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Mark Borrie wrote:

> We recently upgraded our Compaq server to Tru-64 Unix 4.0f (This was
> formerly Digital Unix). We had upgraded to squid 2.2 Stable 4 prior to this
> and it seemed to be working OK on version 4.0b.
>
> After the upgrade we struck 2 problems. One was with the default route off
> campus being reconfigured by malformed packets. We have applied a patch from
> Compaq for this.
>
> The second problem we still do not have a solution. After running for a week
> or so squid dies claiming that it is out of disk space even though the disk
> is only 75% full. I have even tried reducing the cache size significantly
> but we have started getting these crashes again.
>
> After a crash we have to usually delete the swap.state file, or use a
> completely new cache directory to get going again. Deleting the swap.state
> file doesn't seem like a good thing as I did see the cache size get far too
> big once after doing that. There seemed to be files in the cache that
> weren't getting removed.
>
> My feeling at the moment is that we have a problem with advfs rather than
> squid. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any ideas?

I was going to suggest that maybe you're out of inodes. If you are,
then undefining USE_TRUNCATE_NOT_UNLINK in src/defines.h may help.

But then I saw the part about ADVFS. I don't know under what
circumstances advfs reports 'out of space'. Maybe if the
journal paritition fills up?

Duane W.
Received on Thu Aug 26 1999 - 16:39:16 MDT