Hi Amos, On Sun, Mar 15, Amos Jeffries wrote: >> I use an url_rewrite_program, which seems to die after about 400000 >> requests. >> Squid starts 15 processes, which are enough, but after some time one >> process after another die and at the end all processes where gone. >> >> Is it possible to let squid restart an url_rewrite_program, when it dies ? >> >> > > What version of Squid are you using that does not do this restart > automatically? > Squid only dies when ALL helpers for a needed service are dying too fast to > recover quickly. I use squid 2.7.STABLE6. I've 15 processes running, when I kill 2 of them, I see only 13 of 15 processes running in the cache manager menu. like: --snip from cache manager menu -- Redirector Statistics: program: /usr/local/bin/webcatredir number running: 13 of 15 requests sent: 2482 replies received: 2481 queue length: 0 avg service time: 3.33 msec --snip-- for me it looks like the 2 killed processes will not be started, or does it take some time ? --snip from squid -v Squid Cache: Version 2.7.STABLE6 configure options: '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--bindir=/usr/sbin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--localstatedir=/var' '--libexecdir=/usr/sbin' '--datadir=/usr/share/squid' '--disable-carp' '--disable-htcp' '--disable-icap-client' '--disable-ident-lookups' '--disable-wccp' '--disable-wccpv2' '--enable-async-io=128' '--enable-auth=basic digest' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=LDAP' '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=ldap' '--enable-default-err-language=German_Datev' '--enable-err-languages=German' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-storeio=aufs,ufs,diskd,null' '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-useragent-log' '--enable-large-cache-files' '--enable-removal-policies=lru,heap' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-default-user=squid' '--with-filedescriptors=8192' '--with-large-files' '--with-pthreads' '--with-aio' --snip-- -- Gruß Dieter -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If you use Outlook then please do not put my email address in your address-book so that WHEN you get a virus it won't use my address in the >From field.