[squid-users] Squid respawning itself!?

All,

Our squid process (no cache) seems to respawn itself a little to often
and according to cache.log for no apparent reason. Is this normal? Let
me give you an example:

2005/11/26 10:23:29| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for
i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2005/11/26 10:23:29| Process ID 4700

2005/11/26 10:25:06| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for
i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2005/11/26 10:25:06| Process ID 4735

2005/11/26 10:27:31| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for
i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2005/11/26 10:27:31| Process ID 4770

2005/11/26 10:33:10| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for
i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2005/11/26 10:33:10| Process ID 4808

2005/11/26 10:34:20| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for
i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2005/11/26 10:34:20| Process ID 4843

2005/11/26 10:38:30| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for
i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
2005/11/26 10:38:30| Process ID 4878

You get the picture! Why does this happen? Could it be something related
to memory usage? The server has 6GB o' RAM and we have these memory
settings:

cache_mem 512 MB

As I said - we have cache_dir set to /dev/null. Any pointers? This is
proving a problem because occasionally the master process also dies
effectively denying any WWW service to our rather large user base.

Regards

Jim

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Canterbury Christ Church University
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