All, Our squid process (no cache) seems to respawn itself a little to often and according to cache.log for no apparent reason. Is this normal? Let me give you an example: 2005/11/26 10:23:29| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2005/11/26 10:23:29| Process ID 4700 2005/11/26 10:25:06| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2005/11/26 10:25:06| Process ID 4735 2005/11/26 10:27:31| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2005/11/26 10:27:31| Process ID 4770 2005/11/26 10:33:10| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2005/11/26 10:33:10| Process ID 4808 2005/11/26 10:34:20| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2005/11/26 10:34:20| Process ID 4843 2005/11/26 10:38:30| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE6 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2005/11/26 10:38:30| Process ID 4878 You get the picture! Why does this happen? Could it be something related to memory usage? The server has 6GB o' RAM and we have these memory settings: cache_mem 512 MB As I said - we have cache_dir set to /dev/null. Any pointers? This is proving a problem because occasionally the master process also dies effectively denying any WWW service to our rather large user base. Regards Jim -- James Vanns BSc (Hons) MCP Canterbury Christ Church University Senior Systems Programmer (Linux / C & C++) Encryption Key: http://keys.se.linux.org/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3B09EE224A653EA9 Signature Verification Key: http://keys.se.linux.org/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x47FF170724959054
