[squid-users] A very strange Squid 2.5.STABLE1 crash ...

Hi all,

i use Squid for a few years (it was Squid2.3.STABLE1 until middle of
February, now it Squid2.5.STABLE1). Yesterday i faced with a strange problem
in Squid.
I restarted Squid with "-k reconfigure" option, the Squid normally restarted
its services except SquidGuard which was failed to restart due to not enough
memory on server (error "ipcCreate: fork: (12) Not enough space" ). I know
this problem and i'm going to upgrade the proxy server. That was happened
more than once earlier and i just fully stopped and started Squid in this
case. I've made the same in this time, Squid normally started with "Ready to
serve requests" in cache.log, BUT right after it Squid started a "Store
rebuilding" process - i didn't see this process earlier. What i found in
cache.log file:
2003/03/06 12:19:05| Ready to serve requests.
2003/03/06 12:19:12| Store rebuilding is 31.0% complete
2003/03/06 12:19:27| Store rebuilding is 47.4% complete
2003/03/06 12:19:43| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
2003/03/06 12:19:58| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
2003/03/06 12:20:15| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
...
2003/03/06 16:40:11| Store rebuilding is 100.0% complete
2003/03/06 16:40:14| diskHandleWrite: FD 55: disk write error: (27) File too
large
FATAL: Write failure -- check your disk space and cache.log
Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE1): Terminated abnormally.

After it, Squid was restarted by itself many times together with high
increase of swap directories and swap.state file size, until i've stopped it
manually, cleaned up the swap directories and recreated them (with "-z"
option).

What was the cause of this crash?

Thanks.

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Cheers,
Alex