Hello, SQUID is installed on my site since more than 5 years and was running correctly ; since less than a week, SQUID stops very frequently, and I have some messages: * In the /var/log/messages file I have the following: May 4 13:25:42 renesas2 squid[8722]: Squid Parent: child process 9634 exited due to signal 6 May 4 13:25:45 renesas2 squid[8722]: Squid Parent: child process 9716 started May 4 13:26:28 renesas2 squid[8722]: Squid Parent: child process 9716 exited due to signal 6 May 4 13:26:31 renesas2 squid[8722]: Squid Parent: child process 9855 started May 4 13:26:34 renesas2 squid[8722]: Squid Parent: child process 9855 exited due to signal 6 May 4 13:26:37 renesas2 squid[8722]: Squid Parent: child pro When there are too many failures, SQUID parent stops. * In the /var/squid/log/cahe.log I have also the following: FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying. 2010/05/04 13:30:42| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2010/05/04 13:30:42| WARNING: Closing open FD 11 2010/05/04 13:30:42| Finished. Wrote 5206 entries. 2010/05/04 13:30:42| Took 0.0 seconds (5206.0 entries/sec). CPU Usage: 1.820 seconds = 0.690 user + 1.130 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 647 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 7324 KB Ordinary blocks: 7234 KB 49 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 5 blks Holding blocks: 284 KB 1 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 89 KB Total in use: 7518 KB 103% Total free: 89 KB 1% 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE3 for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu... 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Process ID 10140 2010/05/04 13:30:45| With 1024 file descriptors available 2010/05/04 13:30:45| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32889, FD 4 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Adding nameserver 127.0.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf 2010/05/04 13:30:45| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Referer logging is disabled. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 9 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Target number of buckets: 393 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Using 8192 Store buckets 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Max Swap size: 102400 KB 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Rebuilding storage in /home/squid/cache (CLEAN) 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Using Least Load store dir selection 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Set Current Directory to /home/squid 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Loaded Icons. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 11. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 12. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| WCCP Disabled. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Configuring Parent 172.28.64.247/80/0 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Ready to serve requests. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Store rebuilding is 78.7% complete 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Done reading /home/squid/cache swaplog (5206 entries) 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 5206 Entries scanned 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 0 Invalid entries. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 0 With invalid flags. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 5206 Objects loaded. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 0 Objects expired. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 0 Objects cancelled. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Took 0.3 seconds (17951.7 objects/sec). 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Beginning Validation Procedure 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Completed Validation Procedure 2010/05/04 13:30:45| Validated 5206 Entries 2010/05/04 13:30:45| store_swap_size = 57324k 2010/05/04 13:30:46| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects Can somebody explain me what is happening? And what can be the solution? Best regards Bernard LANDRON __________________________________________________________ Bernard LANDRON IT Manager RENESAS Design France 14 A, rue Patis Tatelin 35700 RENNES Attention l'adresse email a changé et est maintenant: bernard.landron.ue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tél: +33 (0)2 23 21 27 50 - Fax: +33 (0)2 23 21 28 02 Portable: +33 (0) 6 31 47 65 13 __________________________________________________________ This message and any attachments (the "message") are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. Messages are susceptible to alteration. RENESAS Design France shall not be liable for the message if altered, changed or falsified. If you are not the intended addressee of this message, please cancel it immediately and inform the sender.