Squid 3.1.5 is stopping (and being restarted by runit) for no apparent reason. From the cache.log: 2010/07/29 14:55:39| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 14:55:39| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 14:57:39| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 14:58:29| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 14:58:52| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 15:00:22| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 15:00:22| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 15:00:30| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 15:00:57| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 15:02:34| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 15:02:52| could not parse headers from on disk structure! 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Starting Squid Cache version 3.1.5 for i686-pc-linux-gnu... 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Process ID 8888 2010/07/29 15:02:57| With 4096 file descriptors available 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Initializing IP Cache... 2010/07/29 15:02:57| DNS Socket created at [::], FD 5 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Adding domain charite.de from /etc/resolv.conf 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Adding nameserver 127.0.0.1 from /etc/resolv.conf 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Adding nameserver 141.42.2.22 from /etc/resolv.conf 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Adding nameserver 141.42.3.33 from /etc/resolv.conf 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Store logging disabled 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Swap maxSize 15360000 + 8192 KB, estimated 1921024 objects 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Target number of buckets: 96051 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Using 131072 Store buckets 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Max Swap size: 15360000 KB 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Version 1 of swap file with LFS support detected... 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Rebuilding storage in /squid-cache (DIRTY) 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Using Least Load store dir selection 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Set Current Directory to /tmp 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Loaded Icons. 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Accepting HTTP connections at [::]:8080, FD 15. 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Accepting ICP messages at [::]:3130, FD 16. 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Accepting HTCP messages on port 4827, FD 17. 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Accepting SNMP messages on [::]:3401, FD 18. 2010/07/29 15:02:57| WARNING: Peer looks like this host 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Ignoring Sibling proxy-cvk-1.charite.de/8080/3130 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Squid modules loaded: 0 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Adaptation support is on 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Ready to serve requests. 2010/07/29 15:02:57| Store rebuilding is 0.87% complete 2010/07/29 15:03:01| Done reading /squid-cache swaplog (472746 entries) 2010/07/29 15:03:01| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 468209 Entries scanned 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 0 Invalid entries. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 0 With invalid flags. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 463707 Objects loaded. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 0 Objects expired. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 4502 Objects cancelled. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2010/07/29 15:03:01| Took 4.46 seconds (103937.58 objects/sec). 2010/07/29 15:03:01| Beginning Validation Procedure 2010/07/29 15:03:02| Completed Validation Procedure 2010/07/29 15:03:02| Validated 927437 Entries 2010/07/29 15:03:02| store_swap_size = 9418360 2010/07/29 15:03:02| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects 2010/07/29 15:03:02| Configuring Sibling proxy-cbf-1.charite.de/8080/3130 2010/07/29 15:03:02| Configuring Sibling proxy-cbf-2.charite.de/8080/3130 2010/07/29 15:03:02| Configuring Sibling proxy-cvk-2.charite.de/8080/3130 Where can I find the reason? Squid3 runs as the user "proxy": proxy 8888 38.9 5.2 126356 108980 ? S 15:02 1:26 /usr/sbin/squid3 -N The runit script is this: cd /etc/service/squid3 echo 128 > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni ulimit -n 4096 -c unlimited exec 2>&1 exec /usr/sbin/squid3 -N The config file specifies: coredump_dir /tmp cache_effective_user proxy cache_effective_group proxy cache_dir diskd /squid-cache 15000 32 32 Yet I don't see a corefile in /tmp or /squid-cache # ls -ld /squid-cache/ drwx------ 35 proxy proxy 4096 2010-07-29 15:03 /squid-cache/ Right now I'm running it in the debugger -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx | http://www.charite.de