Hi there. Yesterday my proxy started crashing with following error message: 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Starting Squid Cache version 2.6.STABLE16 for i386-debian-linux-gnu... 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Process ID 22919 2008/01/31 14:04:12| With 1024 file descriptors available 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Using epoll for the IO loop 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Performing DNS Tests... 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2008/01/31 14:04:12| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 37010, FD 6 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Adding nameserver 62.206.1.4 from /etc/resolv.conf 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Adding nameserver 62.206.2.4 from /etc/resolv.conf 2008/01/31 14:04:12| helperOpenServers: Starting 5 'squidGuard' processes 2008/01/31 14:04:12| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Referer logging is disabled. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 16 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Swap maxSize 10240000 KB, estimated 787692 objects 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Target number of buckets: 39384 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Using 65536 Store buckets 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Max Swap size: 10240000 KB 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Rebuilding storage in /usr/local/squid/var/cache (CLEAN) 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Using Least Load store dir selection 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Current Directory is / 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Loaded Icons. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD18 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 19. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Accepting HTCP messages on port 4827, FD 20. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Accepting SNMP messages on port 3401, FD 21. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| WCCP Disabled. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Ready to serve requests. 2008/01/31 14:04:12| Store rebuilding is 2.8% complete 2008/01/31 14:04:12| WARNING: url_rewriter #1 (FD 7) exited 2008/01/31 14:04:13| Done reading /usr/local/squid/var/cache swaplog (146478 entries) 2008/01/31 14:04:13| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 146478 Entries scanned 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 0 Invalid entries. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 0 With invalid flags. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 146478 Objects loaded. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 0 Objects expired. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 0 Objects cancelled. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2008/01/31 14:04:13| Took 0.7 seconds (195566.6 objects/sec). 2008/01/31 14:04:13| Beginning Validation Procedure 2008/01/31 14:04:13| Completed Validation Procedure 2008/01/31 14:04:13| Validated 146478 Entries 2008/01/31 14:04:13| store_swap_size = 2671964k 2008/01/31 14:04:13| WARNING: url_rewriter #2 (FD 8) exited 2008/01/31 14:04:13| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects 2008/01/31 14:04:14| WARNING: url_rewriter #3 (FD 9) exited 2008/01/31 14:04:14| Too few url_rewriter processes are running 2008/01/31 14:04:14| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2008/01/31 14:04:14| WARNING: Closing open FD 18 2008/01/31 14:04:14| commSetEvents: epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL): failed on fd=18: (1) Operation not permitted 2008/01/31 14:04:14| 65536 entries written so far. 2008/01/31 14:04:14| 131072 entries written so far. 2008/01/31 14:04:14| Finished. Wrote 146478 entries. 2008/01/31 14:04:14| Took 0.0 seconds (6418843.1 entries/sec). FATAL: The url_rewriter helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help! Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE16): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 0.580 seconds = 0.260 user + 0.320 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 16272 KB Ordinary blocks: 16186 KB 11 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 504 KB 2 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 85 KB Total in use: 16690 KB 99% Total free: 85 KB 1% When I restart squid from webmin or from ssh the same thing happens. Changed nothing at squid itself. Search the internet and found one thing that the helper (squidGuard) may have a to big logfile. But it's not the logfile. When I disable the helper squidGuard squid runs normally. It's the squidGuard which hasn't changed too... access rights to squidguard-db's are ok. Every folder and file same user like the squid is running under... I'm out of ideas... May anyone of you have ideas ? Thx! Dirk Goj Mit freundlichen Grüßen Udo Täubrich Betreuungs GmbH i. A. Dirk Goj Westpreussenstr. 38 47809 Krefeld Tel: 02151-1570 1766 Fax: 02151-1570 1789 _____________________________________________________________________________ Geschäftsführer: Ralph Krahl, Roland Stübing Registergericht: Amtsgericht Krefeld HRB 8906 Die in dieser E-Mail enthaltenen Informationen sind moeglicherweise vertraulich und koennen von rechtlicher Bedeutung sein. Diese Mail ist ausschliesslich für den Adressaten bestimmt und jeglicher Zugriff durch andere Personen ist nicht zulaessig. Falls Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empfaenger sind, ist jegliche Veroeffentlichung, Vervielfaeltigung, Verteilung oder sonstige in diesem Zusammenhang stehende Handlung untersagt und unter Umstaenden ungesetzlich. 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