>
> This has happened before and I guess I have never gotten to
> the bottom of
> it. All of the sudden, squid took and held onto 98% of the CPU.
> The machine has plenty of CPU and RAM, not to mention disk
> space. There
> were no warnings in the cache.log.
>
> cache_effective_user is set to nobody.
> coredump_dir is set to /services/squid/core (which exists and
> cache_effective_user has write access to)
>
> Yet, I can't force squid to dump a core file, or I don't know
> how. Can
> anyone tell me how I can do this?
>
Not directly, yet during this high CPU usage , what can be
usefull too is :
% squid -k debug ; sleep 2 ; squid -k debug
Check cache.log for this 2 second full debugging session.
M.
