[squid-users] Mandrake's squid crashes spectacularly...

["Paul Seaman" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have had two boxes (nearly identically configured) with the same updated 
Mandrake 10.1 squid packages crash today with the following message in 
cache.log:

"assertion failed: MemBuf.c:188: "mb->buf && mb->max_capacity && 
mb->capacity"

The Mandrake package that was installed was squid-2.5.STABLE6-2.3.101mdk.

Does anyone have any ideas?  Obviously it sounds like a memory error of some 
type- might it be something in squid.conf?  I've been using essentially the 
same squid.conf for literally years on this hardware.  One machine is a 
P4/1GB RAM configured with cache_mem 256 MB, the other is a P3/512MB RAM 
configured with cache_mem 128MB.  I was also wondering if using the internal 
DNS mechanism is a good or bad idea in these recent versions of Squid.

Thanks,

Paul