Re: [squid-users] squid - k rotate problem

On Aug 25, 2004, at 1:40 AM, Elsen Marc wrote:

>
>
>>
>> greetings
>>
>> i have squid running as a transparent proxy with squidguard as a
>> content filter. I recently increased the filter list size and my
>> machine is choking when i rotate the logs.
>>
>> i have a cron job execute squid -k rotate at night. the CPU
>> pegs out at
>> 100% and it takes for ever for squidguard to process the blacklists.
>> without intervention the machine will choke itself to death
>> and restart.
>>
>> with intervention i have been able to flush my IPFW redirect, load
>> squid, wait 20 minutes until the CPU is done processing the the
>> blacklist then add the redirect statements back in. the whole process
>> takes about 30 minutes start to finish.
>>
>> is there a cleaner way to rotate? the 30 min down time seems too long.
>>
>> running squid-2.5 Stable6 & squidguard 1.2
>>
>>
> Make sure to use the pre-formatted db files when using SquidGuard
> otherwise SQ
> has to create this db format in memory when the squidguard processes
> are restarted,
> which also happens as a result of 'squid -k rotate'. This can take
> considerable
> overhead and delay. Create db files for squid at all times and when
> blacklists are
> updated using :
>
> % squidGuard -C all
>

OMG,.. thank you for removing my head from backside. I totally forgot
about that process.
Thanks

-j

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Received on Wed Aug 25 2004 - 06:23:21 MDT