Re: Squid processes

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Igor Plisco wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anybody explain me how different squid processes share tasks among
> them?
>
> When I say "ps auxw | grep squid", I see 3 squid processes, one under
> user root with name as path to squid binary, and 2 under user squid (as
> configured) with names "(squid)".
>
> I guess, first one (root) hears on port 3128 and redirects requiest to
> its descents. But why two descendant processes and not one or five?
>
> When I kill one of processes under user squid, proxy works well. Only I
> see in squid.log lines:
> > unlinkdUnlink: write FD 6 failed: (32) Broken pipe
>
> "Works well" I say because amputated process always is ill - it tries to
> eat 99% CPU all the time and squid halts sometimes - it doesn't serve
> quieries while seems to be working in "ps". After amputation squid
> doesn't halt.
>
> I used squid 2.3.STABLE3 and have the same behavoiur after upgrading to
> 2.3.STABLE4.
>
> Igor Plisco

normally you should see two squid processes. The first make sure
there is always a second process running. The second process does
all the work.

If you see more than two, kill them all and start squid again.
Received on Thu Aug 10 2000 - 10:44:47 MDT