I have 2 squid instances. Both are taking the same amount of connections, and both are connecting to the same exact pool of origins via a lb. 2344 root 13G 13G cpu1 0 0 4:03:10 25% squid/1 2096 root 13G 13G sleep 31 0 4:47:22 9.2% squid/1 After about 14 hours of runtime, the instances hit 25% utilization, and then never seem to restabilize. This is all I see in my cache.log for the instance that is maxed out: 2007/10/05 10:47:25| clientReadRequest: FD 107 (82.38.189.46:5430) Invalid Request 2007/10/05 11:05:13| WARNING: unparseable HTTP header field {Accept-CharsetGET /pict/320155568274_1.jpg HTTP/1.1} 2007/10/05 11:06:55| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'Connection:' 2007/10/05 11:06:55| clientReadRequest: FD 1808 (84.71.71.234:35312) Invalid Request 2007/10/05 11:06:55| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'Connection:' 2007/10/05 11:06:55| clientReadRequest: FD 1007 (12.25.108.29:63647) Invalid Request 2007/10/05 11:22:01| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'Connection:' 2007/10/05 11:22:01| clientReadRequest: FD 1612 (81.104.41.63:48329) Invalid Request 2007/10/05 11:22:01| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'Connection:' 2007/10/05 11:22:01| clientReadRequest: FD 1685 (74.236.38.154:50482) Invalid Request 2007/10/05 11:22:06| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'Connection:' 2007/10/05 11:22:06| clientReadRequest: FD 6278 (83.112.151.249:53849) Invalid Request The box is a 2 cpu dual core, so each squid instance maxes out at 25% cpu. The are strictly in memory cache (no disk), and they each have 9G of RAM per instance. Can someone give me an idea of what is happening? Thanks.