Hi
Max filedescriptors is defined in squid.conf.
Yes, in some cases a c-icap was installed and the proxy became more
stable for a while.
But Filedescriptors issue still unstable... I really did not know why.
Running Debian 11 is very difficult it is a very new OS and we consider
debian 10 as currently stable .
Also the Squid 4 working very well on Debian 10
Le 11/11/2021 à 20:58, Flashdown a écrit :
Hi David,
well I am curious, where did you set the max filedescriptors? Only in
the OS configuration? If so, you also need to define it in the
squid.conf as well ->
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v5/cfgman/max_filedescriptors.html
Regarding the memory leak, do you use an adaption service such as c-icap?
If so, what is the result of: ss -ant | grep CLOSE_WAIT | wc -l
May you should try to build Squid5 against Debian 11 to have the
latest version of any dependencies needed to see if the memory leak is
gone or not.
I run multiple Squid 5.2 servers on Debian 11 in production and do not
have any issues.
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Best regards,
Enrico Heine
Am 2021-11-11 20:08, schrieb David Touzeau:
Hi
Just for information and i hope it will help.
We have installed Squid 5.1 and Squid 5.2 in production mode.
It seems that after several days, the Squid become very unstable.
We mention that when switching to 4.x we did not encounter these
errors with the same configuration, same users, same network ( replace
binaries and keep same configuration )
All production servers are installed in a virtual environment ( ESXI
or Nutanix ) on Debian 10.x with about 4 to 8 vCPUs and 8GB of memory.
and from 20 to 5000 users.
After severals tests we see that the number of users did not have
impact with the stability.
We encounter same errors on a 20 users proxy and the same way of a
5000 users proxy.
1) Memory leak
---------------------------------
This was encounter on computer that handle more than 10Gb of memory,
squid eat more than 8Gb of memory.
After eating all memory, squid is unable to load helpers and freeze
listen ports.
A restart service free the memory and fix the issue.
2) Max filedescriptors issues:
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This is a strange behavior that Squid did not accept defined
parameter:
Example we set 65535 filedescriptors but squidclient mgr:info report
4096 and sometimes return back to 1024.
Several times squid report
current master transaction: master15881
2021/11/11 17:10:09 kid1| WARNING! Your cache is running out of
filedescriptors
listening port: MyPortNameID1
2021/11/11 17:10:29 kid1| WARNING! Your cache is running out of
filedescriptors
listening port: MyPortNameID1
2021/11/11 17:10:51 kid1| WARNING! Your cache is running out of
filedescriptors
listening port: MyPortNameID1
2021/11/11 17:11:56 kid1| TCP connection to 127.0.0.1/2320 failed
current master transaction: master15881
2021/11/11 17:13:02 kid1| WARNING! Your cache is running out of
filedescriptors
listening port: MyPortNameID1
2021/11/11 17:13:19 kid1| WARNING! Your cache is running out of
filedescriptors
But a mgr:info report:
memPoolFree calls: 4295601
File descriptor usage for squid:
Maximum number of file descriptors: 10048
Largest file desc currently in use: 262
Number of file desc currently in use: 135
Files queued for open: 0
Available number of file descriptors: 9913
Reserved number of file descriptors: 9789
After these errors the listen port is freeze and nobody is able to
surf.
a just "squid -k reconfigure" fix the issue and the proxy return to
normal mode for several minutes and back again to filedescriptors
issues.
There is no relationship between filedescriptors issues and the number
of clients.
Sometimes the issue is discovered during the night when there is no
user that using the proxy ( just some robots like windows update )
Is there something other we can investigate to help more stability of
the 5.x branch ?
Regards
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