Summary:  After a few days of operation squid suddently dies.


Detail:

Box: Dell 2300 Poweredge,   512Mb RAM, 512Mb Swap (partitions), 6x9Gb
of which 5 x 9Gb are for cache_dirs.

Version: Squid 2.2PRE1

Extract from cache.log:

...
1999/03/18 17:01:36|   Completed Validation Procedure
1999/03/18 17:01:36|   Validated 482307 Entries
1999/03/18 17:01:36|   store_swap_size = 4956842k
1999/03/18 17:01:37| storeLateRelease: released 7 objects
FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying.

Then it is restarted by a supervisory process:
1999/03/18 17:03:55| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
1999/03/18 17:03:55|     65536 entries written so far.
1999/03/18 17:03:55|    131072 entries written so far.
1999/03/18 17:03:55|    196608 entries written so far.
1999/03/18 17:03:55|    262144 entries written so far.
1999/03/18 17:03:56|    327680 entries written so far.
1999/03/18 17:03:56|    393216 entries written so far.
1999/03/18 17:03:56|    458752 entries written so far.
1999/03/18 17:03:56|   Finished.  Wrote 482331 entries.
1999/03/18 17:03:56|   Took 1 seconds (482331.0 entries/sec).
CPU Usage: 11.115 seconds
Maximum Resident Size: 44688 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Starting Squid Cache version 2.2.PRE1 for 
i386-unknown-freebsd3.0...
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Process ID 2445
1999/03/18 17:03:57| With 1064 file descriptors available
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Performing DNS Tests...
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
1999/03/18 17:03:57| helperOpenServers: Starting 5 'dnsserver' processes
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 14
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Swap maxSize 43069440 KB, estimated 3313033 objects
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Target number of buckets: 66260
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Using 65536 Store buckets, replacement runs every 1 second
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Max Mem  size: 409600 KB
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Max Swap size: 43069440 KB
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Store logging disabled
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #0 (CLEAN)
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #1 (CLEAN)
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #2 (CLEAN)
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #3 (CLEAN)
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #4 (CLEAN)
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Loaded Icons.
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Accepting HTTP connections on port 80, FD 44.
1999/03/18 17:03:57| Accepting ICP messages on port 3130, FD 45.
999/03/18 17:03:57| Ready to serve requests.
1999/03/18 17:03:59|     65536 Entries read so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:00|    131072 Entries read so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:01|    196608 Entries read so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:02|    262144 Entries read so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:03|    327680 Entries read so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:04|    393216 Entries read so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|    458752 Entries read so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:06| Done reading Cache Dir #2 swaplog (93813 entries)
1999/03/18 17:04:06| Done reading Cache Dir #0 swaplog (95903 entries)
1999/03/18 17:04:06| Done reading Cache Dir #4 swaplog (97048 entries)
1999/03/18 17:04:06| Done reading Cache Dir #3 swaplog (97135 entries)
1999/03/18 17:04:06| Done reading Cache Dir #1 swaplog (98432 entries)
1999/03/18 17:04:06| Finished rebuilding storage disk.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|    482331 Entries read from previous logfile.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|         0 Entries scanned from swap files.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|         0 Invalid entries.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|         0 With invalid flags.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|    482325 Objects loaded.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|         0 Objects expired.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|         0 Objects cancelled.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|         3 Duplicate URLs purged.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|         3 Swapfile clashes avoided.
1999/03/18 17:04:06|   Took 9 seconds (53591.7 objects/sec).
1999/03/18 17:04:06| Beginning Validation Procedure
1999/03/18 17:04:07|     65536 Entries Validated so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:07|    131072 Entries Validated so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:07|    196608 Entries Validated so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:08|    262144 Entries Validated so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:08|    327680 Entries Validated so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:08|    393216 Entries Validated so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:09|    458752 Entries Validated so far.
1999/03/18 17:04:09|   Completed Validation Procedure
1999/03/18 17:04:09|   Validated 482325 Entries
1999/03/18 17:04:09|   store_swap_size = 4957062k
1999/03/18 17:04:09| storeLateRelease: released 8 objects


%df
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a     99183    20413    70836    22%    /
/dev/da0s1f   7910512   764643  6513029    11%    /usr
/dev/da0s1e     99183     2237    89012     2%    /var
/dev/da1c     8615320  1014464  7600856    12%    /d1
/dev/da2c     8615320  1014577  7600743    12%    /d2
/dev/da3c     8615320  1014036  7601284    12%    /d3
/dev/da4c     8615320  1014620  7600700    12%    /d4
/dev/da5c     8615320  1014418  7600902    12%    /d5
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

uname -a
FreeBSD cache.tibus.net 3.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE #1: Thu Feb  4 14:48:06 GMT 
1999     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386

>From "top"
ast pid:  2491;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00                   17:58:38
26 processes:  1 running, 25 sleeping
CPU states:  0.4% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.2% idle
Mem: 60M Active, 3268K Inact, 42M Wired, 396M Cache, 7079K Buf, 1132K Free
Swap: 512M Total, 2768K Used, 509M Free, 1% Inuse

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
 2445 root       2   0 56256K 54852K poll     0:36  0.31%  0.31% squid



In the squid.conf:

cache_mem  400 MB


It may be the cache_mem which is wrong, however:

a) does anyone know why squid bombs out so badly,
b) what would a recommended cache_mem be for this particular box?

Thanks in advance

Paul.

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