Well the OS and platform should be obvious from the messages ;) Its Redhat EL4 on a dual Pentium Xeon box though just for clarity. I've trawled the log files and there are no errors that I can see that related (at least obviously) to squid respawning... just the whole reload blurb. A default setting of 8MB? With an average of ~2000 concurrent connections is that practical? Thats a serious question BTW! Regards, Jim Vanns On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 15:03 +0100, Mark Elsen wrote: > > 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 > > OS/Platform/version ? > > - Check your system logs, watchout for errors related to process > handling. > - Please have a go with the default setting of cache_mem. > > M. -- 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