Hi, I have been building for the past week a special redirector for squid in python 2.6.x; the redirectors works good they do their job but when i hit shutdown or reload (squid -k shutdown|reload) they just won't simple die and in fact they start to became huge resource monster and lag the cpu until obviously i kill them manually (which is in fact the workaround i have just made for when squid hit reload or shutdown on the init.d scripts). I don't know if its a bug or configuration problem so here are some relevant logs... ==cache.log== 2010/09/06 13:55:04.217| helperOpenServers: Starting 2/2 'python26' processes ..... 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| helperShutdown: redirector #1 shutting down. 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| comm_close: start closing FD 9 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| The AsyncCall comm_close_start constructed, this=0x2b7fce5b3590 [call66] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| comm.cc(1611) will call comm_close_start(FD 9) [call66] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| comm.cc(1195) commSetTimeout: FD 9 timeout -1 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| comm.cc(1206) commSetTimeout: FD 9 timeout -1 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| commio_finish_callback: called for FD 9 (-10, 11) 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| comm.cc(165) will call SomeCommReadHandler(FD 9, errno=11, flag=-10, data=0x2b7fce58b528, size=0, buf=0x2b7fce58b5f0) [call4] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| commCallCloseHandlers: FD 9 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| commCallCloseHandlers: ch->handler=0x2b7fce568a80*1 2010/09/06 13:55:41.808| comm.cc(1460) will call SomeCloseHandler(FD 9, data=0x2b7fce58b528) [call3] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| The AsyncCall comm_close_complete constructed, this=0x2b7fce5b3600 [call67] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm.cc(1643) will call comm_close_complete(FD 9) [call67] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| helperShutdown: redirector #2 shutting down. 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm_close: start closing FD 11 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| The AsyncCall comm_close_start constructed, this=0x2b7fce5b3670 [call68] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm.cc(1611) will call comm_close_start(FD 11) [call68] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm.cc(1195) commSetTimeout: FD 11 timeout -1 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm.cc(1206) commSetTimeout: FD 11 timeout -1 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| commio_finish_callback: called for FD 11 (-10, 11) 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm.cc(165) will call SomeCommReadHandler(FD 11, errno=11, flag=-10, data=0x2b7fce58d7e8, size=0, buf=0x2b7fce58d8b0) [call8] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| commCallCloseHandlers: FD 11 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| commCallCloseHandlers: ch->handler=0x2b7fce58f8c0*1 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm.cc(1460) will call SomeCloseHandler(FD 11, data=0x2b7fce58d7e8) [call7] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| The AsyncCall comm_close_complete constructed, this=0x2b7fce58ad70 [call69] 2010/09/06 13:55:41.809| comm.cc(1643) will call comm_close_complete(FD 11) [call69] ..... 2010/09/06 13:55:41.810| Open FD UNSTARTED 9 python26 #1 2010/09/06 13:55:41.810| Open FD UNSTARTED 11 python26 #2 ==cache.log== And a sample/stub of the redirector python script if it helps... ==python redirector script== #!/usr/bin/python26 import sys # Variables EOF = False RecentBorn = True # Life Cycle try: while ( not EOF ): if ( RecentBorn ): RecentBorn = False else: sys.stdout.flush() line = sys.stdin.readline() sys.stdout.write("\n") except KeyboardInterrupt: EOF = True ==python redirector script== And my running box of course: # uname -msr Linux 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.centos.plus x86_64 # squid -v Squid Cache: Version 3.1.8 configure options: '--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--exec_prefix=/usr' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib64/squid' '--localstatedir=/var' '--datadir=/usr/share/squid' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--with-logdir=$(localstatedir)/log/squid' '--with-pidfile=$(localstatedir)/run/squid.pid' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--enable-arp-acl' '--enable-follow-x-forwarded-for' '--enable-auth=basic,digest,ntlm,negotiate' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=LDAP,MSNT,NCSA,PAM,SMB,YP,getpwnam,multi-domain-NTLM,SASL,DB,POP3,squid_radius_auth' '--enable-ntlm-auth-helpers=smb_lm,no_check,fakeauth' '--enable-digest-auth-helpers=password,ldap,eDirectory' '--enable-negotiate-auth-helpers=squid_kerb_auth' '--enable-external-acl-helpers=ip_user,ldap_group,session,unix_group,wbinfo_group' '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-cachemgr-hostname=localhost' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-epoll' '--enable-icap-client' '--enable-ident-lookups' '--enable-linux-netfilter' '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-ssl' '--enable-storeio=aufs,diskd,ufs' '--enable-useragent-log' '--enable-wccpv2' '--enable-esi' '--with-aio' '--with-default-user=squid' '--with-filedescriptors=16384' '--with-dl' '--with-openssl' '--with-pthreads' '--disable-loadable-modules' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-fPIE -Os -g -pipe -fsigned-char -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' 'LDFLAGS=-pie' 'CXXFLAGS=-fPIE -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --with-squid=/home/constructor/rpmbuild/BUILD/squid-3.1.8 --enable-ltdl-convenience Best Regards