Henrik Nordstrom disse na ultima mensagem: >> then I start squid with one of the above versions and squid starts >> rebuilding swap.state >> >> when it starts failing we get what you want? > > That you try the same again, by shutting down Squid, then clear the > cache and restore the backed up swap.state files and start Squid again. > Hopefully the problem will manifest itself again, if so then there is an > frozen state which produces the problem, and which can be debugged > further to isolate what goes wrong. > just to get it straight when it fails I shut squid down again I wipe out the cache_dirs and recreate them? I copy the former original (first) backup swap.state back in place I start squid with this former swap.state but empty cache_dirs Is it that exactly? swap.state should shrink at this stage, eliminating it's reference when not finding the file right? Michel ... **************************************************** Datacenter Matik http://datacenter.matik.com.br E-Mail e Data Hosting Service para Profissionais. ****************************************************