On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Mathew Thomas wrote: > I have got squid running on HP ML530 with two Xeon 3.0 GHz, 8GB Mem, and > 8x36 Gb hard disk. Six disks have been dedicated for Cache and using > reiserfs filesystem and mounted as /cache1 to /cache6.
Total overkill server... unless ofcourse you plan on running 8 instances of Squid on this box.. > Yesterday the system crashed. Other than ping response, it was not doing > anything. I couldn't login into the console. I had to cold boot the > server in order to bring up the server. I checked the logs, and I can't > see anything unusual or wrong. Squid is working fine after the cold > boot. These kinds of symptoms is almost always a kernel or hardware issue. I would recommend to always keep the console logged in (in text mode) and disable the screen saver, or alternatively have a serial console always connected. Also enable Sys-RQ support. Enabling kernel crash-dump support may also be helpful (even if maybe not very practical with such large amounts of memory). > The server is not under heavy load, ( probably less than one tenth of > the load we are planning put to the box) . I don't know where to start > and look at the problem. Please help. I am attaching the output of the > top command and my squid.conf file. Neither really matters. You need to gather data on what was going in when the system hang, not when it operates normally. Regards Henrik
