Ali Resting wrote: > > I am using Squid 2.5STABLE1 and have been for a while. 2 days ago we upgraded the > memory from 512MB to 1024MB. The machine seemed to run fine, and at some point > during the evening it crashed with a kernel panic. We restarted the box and again it > ran for about 3 hours then crashed. I have notice the crash comes during heavy usage > of squid. I then reverted back to the 512MB memory which had been working fine for > about 6months and it also started doing the same thing - crashing. > > I have deleted and recreated the cache directory to no avail. these are my settings > in squid: > > cache_mem 200MB > cache_dir /home/squid 10240 16 256. > > Nothing else has been changed on the box. I am using RedHat 2.4.18 with the ft > module(Promise FastTrak ataraid). > I have looked at the cache.log of squid, there are no errors there. > > Ali Resting > Real Image Internet
What is the panic message (/var/log/messages) ? An application should never be able to crash the kernel. The new mem. could be bad for instance. Check this out : E.g 'googalize' yourself on the word 'memtest'. Several tools will be found, also in the public domain. Some of them run from floppy,or can even be configured in the bootloader of a linux installation, where then a choice can be made for instance between the kernel or a mem test during system startup. M. -- 'Time is a consequence of Matter thus General Relativity is a direct consequence of QM (M.E. Mar 2002)
