Are there any .core files for squid? find / -name "squid.core" -print It seems like your cache is crashing for some unknown reason - are you not killing it every few hours somehow? Its highly unlikely that squid is dying after EXACTLY 66 minutes. Also try using the latest version... -----Original Message----- From: Gix, Lilian (CI/OSR) * [mailto:Lilian.Gix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 09 November 2005 02:45 PM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Squid unreachable every hour and 6 minutes. Hello, Realy no body have an idea ? :( L.G. -----Original Message----- From: Gix, Lilian (CI/OSR) * Sent: Mittwoch, 2. November 2005 10:26 To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Squid unreachable every hour and 6 minutes. Hello, I have a problem with my squid : every hour and 6 minutes, it is unreachable for few second. Here is a part of Cache.log : 2005/11/02 09:44:45| Detected REVIVED Parent: virus2.com/8080/0 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i386-debian-li nux-gnu... 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Process ID 1430 2005/11/02 10:07:05| With 4096 file descriptors available 2005/11/02 10:07:05| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32772, FD 5 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Adding nameserver 193.108.217.70 from /etc/resolv.conf 2005/11/02 10:07:05| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Referer logging is disabled. 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Target number of buckets: 393 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Using 8192 Store buckets 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Max Mem size: 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Max Swap size: 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Store logging disabled 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Rebuilding storage in /cache (DIRTY) 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Using Least Load store dir selection 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Set Current Directory to /cache_log/ 2005/11/02 10:07:05| Loaded Icons. 2005/11/02 10:07:15| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 8080, FD 11. 2005/11/02 10:07:15| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 12. 2005/11/02 10:07:15| HTCP Disabled. 2005/11/02 10:07:15| WCCP Disabled. 2005/11/02 10:07:15| Configuring Parent 10.4.13.184/8080/0 2005/11/02 10:07:15| Ready to serve requests. 2005/11/02 10:07:15| Configuring Parent virus1.com/8080/0 2005/11/02 10:07:15| Configuring Parent virus2.com/8080/0 2005/11/02 10:07:15| Store rebuilding is 1.9% complete 2005/11/02 10:07:16| WARNING: newer swaplog entry for dirno 0, fileno 0000031F 2005/11/02 10:07:16| WARNING: newer swaplog entry for dirno 0, fileno 00000371 .... 2005/11/02 10:07:19| WARNING: newer swaplog entry for dirno 0, fileno 000039E4 2005/11/02 10:07:19| WARNING: newer swaplog entry for dirno 0, fileno 000039E8 2005/11/02 10:07:19| Done reading /cache swaplog (215057 entries) 2005/11/02 10:07:19| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 111709 Entries scanned 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 0 Invalid entries. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 0 With invalid flags. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 35086 Objects loaded. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 0 Objects expired. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 6194 Objects cancelled. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 3443 Duplicate URLs purged. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| 70406 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2005/11/02 10:07:19| Took 14.5 seconds (2411.4 objects/sec). 2005/11/02 10:07:19| Beginning Validation Procedure 2005/11/02 10:07:19| Completed Validation Procedure 2005/11/02 10:07:19| Validated 31666 Entries 2005/11/02 10:07:19| store_swap_size = 400260k 2005/11/02 10:07:20| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 399480 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:07:20| storeLateRelease: released 2 objects 2005/11/02 10:07:31| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 384820 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:07:39| WARNING: 1 swapin MD5 mismatches 2005/11/02 10:07:42| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 377240 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:07:53| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 369680 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:08:04| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 351148 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:08:15| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 340112 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:08:26| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 320184 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:08:37| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 309412 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:08:41| clientProcessHit: Vary object loop! 2005/11/02 10:08:48| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 295500 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:08:59| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 287596 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:09:10| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 277460 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:09:11| WARNING: 10 swapin MD5 mismatches 2005/11/02 10:09:21| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 267808 KB > 102400 KB 2005/11/02 10:09:32| WARNING: Disk space over limit: 256848 KB > 102400 KB ... I already tried to : - Stop Squid, delete swap.state, restart squid - Stop Squid, format my cache parition, squid -z, start squid - change cache_dir ufs /cache 5000 16 256 to cache_dir ufs /cache 100 16 256, squid -k restart. - reboot completely the server But nothing worked. I realy need a help. PS : I'm with squid/2.5.STABLE6 Thanks. L.G.