Amos I got the same errors wit Stable11 this is why I switched back to the original fedora squid package. Here are the logs I got for Stable11 2009/01/19 09:36:52| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 5 'ntlm_auth' processes [2009/01/19 09:36:52, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! [2009/01/19 09:36:52, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) [2009/01/19 09:36:52, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! could not obtain winbind domain name! [2009/01/19 09:36:52, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! 2009/01/19 09:36:52| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Referer logging is disabled. [2009/01/19 09:36:52, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 16 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Store logging disabled 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Swap maxSize 209879040 KB, estimated 16144541 objects 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Target number of buckets: 807227 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Using 1048576 Store buckets 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Max Mem size: 3145728 KB 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Max Swap size: 209879040 KB 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Version 1 of swap file without LFS support detected... 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Rebuilding storage in /cache1 (CLEAN) 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Using Least Load store dir selection 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Loaded Icons. 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0 , port 8080, FD 17. 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 18. 2009/01/19 09:36:52| HTCP Disabled. 2009/01/19 09:36:52| Ready to serve requests. 2009/01/19 09:36:53| Store rebuilding is 0.62% complete 2009/01/19 09:36:58| Done reading /cache1 swaplog (657105 entries) 2009/01/19 09:36:58| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 657105 Entries scanned 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 0 Invalid entries. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 0 With invalid flags. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 657062 Objects loaded. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 0 Objects expired. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 0 Objects cancelled. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 15 Duplicate URLs purged. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 28 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| Took 5.84 seconds (112585.44 objects/sec). 2009/01/19 09:36:58| Beginning Validation Procedure 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 262144 Entries Validated so far. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| 1048576 Entries Validated so far. 2009/01/19 09:36:58| Completed Validation Procedure 2009/01/19 09:36:58| Validated 1314252 Entries 2009/01/19 09:36:58| store_swap_size = 14199244 2009/01/19 09:37:00| storeLateRelease: released 2 objects 2009/01/19 09:38:13| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method attempted by 1 0.128.145.118: This is not a bug. see squid.conf extension_methods 2009/01/19 09:38:13| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method in request '__ _/______k9_;N_7___%________*_^_jq__<e__aW_____Ckx_' 2009/01/19 09:38:13| clientProcessRequest: Invalid Request 2009/01/19 09:40:33| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2009/01/19 09:40:33| WARNING: Closing open FD 18 2009/01/19 09:40:33| 65536 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:33| 131072 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:33| 196608 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:33| 262144 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:33| 327680 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:33| 393216 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:34| 458752 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:34| 524288 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:34| 589824 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:34| 655360 entries written so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:34| Finished. Wrote 659046 entries. 2009/01/19 09:40:34| Took 0.23 seconds (2904809.13 entries/sec). FATAL: comm_write: fd 885: pending callback! Squid Cache (Version 3.0.STABLE11): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 15.366 seconds = 7.359 user + 8.007 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 13108 KB Ordinary blocks: 13023 KB 86 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 1 blks Holding blocks: 134036 KB 538 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 84 KB Total in use: 147059 KB 1122% Total free: 84 KB 1% 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.STABLE11 for x86_64-redhat -linux-gnu... 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Process ID 1060 2009/01/19 09:40:37| With 16384 file descriptors available 2009/01/19 09:40:37| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 46857, FD 7 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Adding domain smartelecom.org from /etc/resolv.conf 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Adding nameserver 127.0.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Adding nameserver 81.85.241.28 from /etc/resolv.conf 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Adding nameserver 81.85.241.29 from /etc/resolv.conf 2009/01/19 09:40:37| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 5 'ntlm_auth' processes [2009/01/19 09:40:37, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! [2009/01/19 09:40:37, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! [2009/01/19 09:40:37, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! [2009/01/19 09:40:37, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! 2009/01/19 09:40:37| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Referer logging is disabled. [2009/01/19 09:40:37, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:get_winbind_domain(173) could not obtain winbind domain name! 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 16 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Store logging disabled 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Swap maxSize 209879040 KB, estimated 16144541 objects 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Target number of buckets: 807227 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Using 1048576 Store buckets 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Max Mem size: 3145728 KB 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Max Swap size: 209879040 KB 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Version 1 of swap file without LFS support detected... 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Rebuilding storage in /cache1 (CLEAN) 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Using Least Load store dir selection 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Loaded Icons. 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0 , port 8080, FD 17. 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 18. 2009/01/19 09:40:37| HTCP Disabled. 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Ready to serve requests. 2009/01/19 09:40:37| Store rebuilding is 0.62% complete 2009/01/19 09:40:43| Done reading /cache1 swaplog (659046 entries) 2009/01/19 09:40:43| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 659046 Entries scanned 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 0 Invalid entries. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 0 With invalid flags. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 658900 Objects loaded. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 0 Objects expired. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 0 Objects cancelled. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 44 Duplicate URLs purged. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 102 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| Took 5.99 seconds (110051.77 objects/sec). 2009/01/19 09:40:43| Beginning Validation Procedure 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 262144 Entries Validated so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 524288 Entries Validated so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 786432 Entries Validated so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| 1310720 Entries Validated so far. 2009/01/19 09:40:43| Completed Validation Procedure 2009/01/19 09:40:43| Validated 1318037 Entries 2009/01/19 09:40:43| store_swap_size = 14223796 2009/01/19 09:40:44| storeLateRelease: released 18 objects 2009/01/19 09:42:28| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method attempted by 1 0.128.135.208: This is not a bug. see squid.conf extension_methods 2009/01/19 09:42:28| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method in request '_' 9_=_l_`-_*w_N0qH____R_ _n*_A9+W_3__.______ ___W___)____#_s_g___ __#tV/]____%_?__ 5M_7_*__"w______u_' 2009/01/19 09:42:28| clientProcessRequest: Invalid Request 2009/01/19 09:44:20| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method attempted by 1 0.128.135.208: This is not a bug. see squid.conf extension_methods 2009/01/19 09:44:20| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method in request '__ d___=-z______yG__n____6_o~U[X_Q____)L_x_\-p$a___-_2L_{_____' 2009/01/19 09:44:20| clientProcessRequest: Invalid Request 2009/01/19 09:48:39| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method attempted by 1 0.128.135.208: This is not a bug. see squid.conf extension_methods 2009/01/19 09:48:39| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method in request '__ ___b__\__]__TrSf__|____'u__________'____Y_8___ _g___K____8___O__$__ ___\_v_`W_#_ x_e_W__\ _xD___2_X' 2009/01/19 09:48:39| clientProcessRequest: Invalid Request 2009/01/19 09:49:46| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method attempted by 1 0.128.135.208: This is not a bug. see squid.conf extension_methods 2009/01/19 09:49:46| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method in request '__ _4$_Ji_[___A_L_'_A<F_:____*_y________P___K___t____I___Z_____<sFT___H_}__V_'_ ___D _n________l____}q' As you see it is exactly the same error. Then another thing I noticed that when squid restarts and start rebuilding the cache it says Store rebuilding is 0.62% complete and then done directly although I have till now in the cache around 22G of cached material. Is this normal do you think the problem is store related? > >Three problems: >First that is 3.0.STABLE10 running. Not the STABEL11 you say you installed. >Second (non-fatal) problem: > Some client is pumping binary data into squid through its listening port >as a 'request'. Are you perhaps intercepting traffic? I suspect this is a client who has some sort of malware on his pc I will contact him to check out his system > 2009/01/19 19:17:45| clientParseRequestMethod: Unsupported method in > request > '__ > _______j___A__t_#__vQ_____s_V_s_{WZ_fd}_____3__9G(_____(__DQ_N___W_Ba__T_u__ > _`__ > __OH_k_#>_k____Wz+' > 2009/01/19 19:17:45| clientProcessRequest: Invalid Request >Third (non-fatal, slow-speed) problem, IO seems to be overloading: > 2009/01/19 19:17:59| squidaio_queue_request: WARNING - Queue congestion >Are your disks full? Or just an overload of large requests at peak traffic >times. My discs are not full in fact I still have a lot of space but this might be overload when squid restarts by itself Fourth (fatal) problem, Squid rotate/restarts and flushing it's indexes to disk dies. > 2009/01/19 19:20:08| ctx: exit level 0 > 2009/01/19 19:20:08| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... > 2009/01/19 19:20:08| WARNING: Closing open FD 17 <snip> > 2009/01/19 19:20:09| 851968 entries written so far. > 2009/01/19 19:20:09| 917504 entries written so far. > 2009/01/19 19:20:09| Finished. Wrote 978773 entries. > 2009/01/19 19:20:09| Took 0.35 seconds (2810079.01 entries/sec). > FATAL: comm_write: fd 1055: pending callback! <snip> I think this is already known, bugzilla is down right now so I can't check. First, try getting the STABLE11 to actually be the running squid. That may solve the issue for you. > Something is happening where squid says FATAL: comm_write: fd 2296: > pending > callback! And it stops and restart. > Does anyone have any idea what's wrong with the system. Do you think it is > a > configuration problem. The system is a core2 Duo 2.66G CPU and 8GB of RAM > and 1 HDD exclusively for caching 250GB Sata 10000 RPM. Can the problem be > resolved with Squid3 or shall I go back to squid 2.6 or 2.7? > > My uname -r output gives the following > > 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.x86_64 as function kernel > > Thank you > > Ragheb Rustom > > > > Thanks Again