Jay W. Reffner wrote: > I've got an OpenBSD box running Squid 2.5 Stable 5 that's pretty busy. > When it gets to around 30% squid process usage, my Layer 4 transparent > switch thinks that squid's down and kills my L4 redirection even though > it's not really. So what happens is when my L4 switch backs off and > stops forwarding HTTP requests to my squid box, it relieves the load > enough to the point where the L4 switch then thinks it's back up and > starts forwarding HTTP requests again.
Check with your switch vendor to see if there's any way to adjust the dead host detection parameters. You could also try switching to a different OS - while very secure, recent benchmarks showed OpenBSD lagging badly in performance and scalability compared to Linux and the other BSDs: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/ Adam
