Re: [squid-users] Squid and SquidGuard retsarting. Why?

Quoting Brian Gregory <brian.gregory05@btconnect.com>:

> We have a Linux box running Suse 10.0 set up as a router and web proxy
> with filtering sharing our DSL connection between 7 Windows XP
> computers. It's running squid and squidGuard with a very large blacklist
> of forbidden URLs and phrases.
>
> Because we basically have no money the Suse box is an old 400MHz Pentium
> II PC with only 256MB of RAM and this isn't likely to change in the near
> future, except that I might be able to get some more RAM if necessary.
>
> Squid is set up to run 5 squidGuard processes. When we boot Suse it
> takes 15-20 minutes with lots of disk thrashing for the 5 squidGuards to
> read in the blacklists and build their tables. During this time the web
> proxy is non functional so we usually leave the Suse box running 24/7 to
> avoid having to wait for it.
>
> Much of the time it works fine but every now and then for no obvious
> reason, squid decides it needs to start more squidGuard processes which
> effectively cuts off all web access. I'm not sure exactly what happens,
> maybe sometimes it just kills the existing squidGuards and starts new
> ones but it sometimes seems to end running 10 squidGuards and thrashing
> the disk hard for ages leaving the users with no web access.
>
> When it's all running properly free -m seems to indicated that there is
> enough memory:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 250 246 3 0 51 126
> -/+ buffers/cache: 68 181
> Swap: 400 2 397
>
>
>
> Does anyone know what's going on and how to stop it happening?
>
> --
>
> Brian Gregory.
> brian.gregory05@btconnect.com
>
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>

How big are your access.log files? There is a 2gb limit on Squid. I would
definately think about adding more memory to the box though. You should be
able to pick up PC 100 memory fairly cheap.

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Dwayne Hottinger
Network Administrator
Harrisonburg City Public Schools