(Been away putting out other fires...) By memory limit, do you mean cache_mem? That's set to the default that came with this package (CentOS 4.5, Squid 2.5) at 8 Mb. No sign of gkrellmd but I might be looking in the right places for it. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------- Hoover Chan chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx Technology Director Schools of the Sacred Heart 2222 Broadway St. San Francisco, CA 94115 ----- "Pieter De Wit" <pieter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > >> > > >> > > >> >