Hi Hoover, Just a thought - what is the memory limit set to in squid and are other services like gkrellmd running ? Cheers, Pieter On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:43:17 -0700 (PDT), Hoover Chan <chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It looks like Squid is what's crashing (I left a terminal session open with > "top" running) but it's dragging the whole OS down with it to the point > where the only way out is to reset or power cycle the computer. > > Very frustrating. > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Hoover Chan chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Technology Director > Schools of the Sacred Heart > 2222 Broadway St. > San Francisco, CA 94115 > > > ----- "Rick Chisholm" <rchisholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> might be worthwhile to run memtest86 against your server to rule out >> memory issues, esp. since you appear to have clear logs. Is squid >> crashing or is the OS locking up? >> >> Hoover Chan wrote: >> > Hi, I'm new to this mailing list and relatively new to managing >> Squid. >> > >> > I'm running a Squid cache using version 2.5 and 1 Gb of RAM. I'm >> running into a problem where the system crashes so hard that the only >> way to bring it back up is to power cycle the server. Subsequent >> examination of the log files don't reveal any diagnostic information. >> The logs seem to show that the system is running just fine without >> incident. >> > >> > Any thoughts on what to look at? It's happening at least once a week >> now. >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> > >> > >> > -------------------------------------------------- >> > Hoover Chan chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> > Technology Director >> > Schools of the Sacred Heart >> > 2222 Broadway St. >> > San Francisco, CA 94115 >> > >> > >> >