[squid-users] SQUID 2.5Stable4 with, DISKD showing failures

Greetings,

I have Squid 2.5.STABLE4 running in transparent mode on the following config

P-IV 3.0GHz HT (with HT Disabled in BIOS)
2GB DDR RAM
36GB X 2 SCSI HDD (System X 1, Cache Dir X 1)

RedHat 9.0 with the latest Up2date
Linux version 2.4.20-20.9 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com)
(gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5))
#1 Mon Aug 18 11:45:58 EDT 2003

Port 80 Redirection going thru a Mikrotik Router Ver 2.7.14

Cache Disk is on Reiserfs
fstab :
/dev/sdb1 /cache reiserfs
noatime,notail 1 2

Cachemgr.cgi output for the DISKD Stats shows the following

sent_count: 8562730
recv_count: 8562730
max_away: 407
max_shmuse: 360
open_fail_queue_len: 92
block_queue_len: 3676156

             OPS SUCCESS FAIL
   open 1011927 1010848 1079
 create 676228 676228 0
  close 1687071 1687065 0
 unlink 627365 598979 28386
   read 1771337 1770258 0
  write 2788802 2788802 0

please can you explain the cause of the Failures in the above output

thanks

Ripunjay Bararia
Mumbai, INDIA
Received on Wed Nov 26 2003 - 11:55:33 MST