Hi, I am facing issue that my squid automatically restarts after every few minutes. I wont find out whats wrong with it. Following is my cache.log output. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE14 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Process ID 4393 2010/11/21 15:55:38| With 1024 file descriptors available 2010/11/21 15:55:38| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 34895, FD 5 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Adding nameserver 11.0.0.2 from squid.conf 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Adding nameserver 221.132.112.8 from squid.conf 2010/11/21 15:55:38| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Referer logging is disabled. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Swap maxSize 9216000 KB, estimated 708923 objects 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Target number of buckets: 35446 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Using 65536 Store buckets 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Max Swap size: 9216000 KB 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Rebuilding storage in /cache1 (CLEAN) 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Using Least Load store dir selection 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Loaded Icons. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Accepting HTTP connections at 11.0.0.1, port 3128, FD 12. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 13. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| WCCP Disabled. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Configuring Parent XX.XX.108.92/8080/0 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Ready to serve requests. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Done reading /cache1 swaplog (14 entries) 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 14 Entries scanned 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Invalid entries. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 With invalid flags. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 14 Objects loaded. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Objects expired. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Objects cancelled. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Took 0.3 seconds ( 51.6 objects/sec). 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Beginning Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Completed Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Validated 14 Entries 2010/11/21 15:55:38| store_swap_size = 168k 2010/11/21 15:55:39| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects [root@Router ~]# tail -f /var/log/squid/cache.log 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Objects expired. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Objects cancelled. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Took 0.3 seconds ( 51.6 objects/sec). 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Beginning Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Completed Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 15:55:38| Validated 14 Entries 2010/11/21 15:55:38| store_swap_size = 168k 2010/11/21 15:55:39| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2010/11/21 16:00:08| Preparing for shutdown after 309 requests 2010/11/21 16:00:08| Waiting 1 seconds for active connections to finish 2010/11/21 16:00:08| FD 12 Closing HTTP connection 2010/11/21 16:00:10| Shutting down... 2010/11/21 16:00:10| FD 13 Closing ICP connection 2010/11/21 16:00:10| WARNING: Closing client 11.0.0.2 connection due to lifetime timeout 2010/11/21 16:00:10| http://nyc-v65.pornhub.com/dl/a98b5b81cbb57fc75d3017b38e303ea8/4ce8fb83/videos/002/045/287/2045287.flv?r=150&start=18716004 2010/11/21 16:00:10| Closing unlinkd pipe on FD 10 2010/11/21 16:00:10| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2010/11/21 16:00:10| Finished. Wrote 90 entries. 2010/11/21 16:00:10| Took 0.0 seconds (167597.8 entries/sec). CPU Usage: 0.732 seconds = 0.345 user + 0.387 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 2904 KB Ordinary blocks: 2829 KB 35 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 6 blks Holding blocks: 468 KB 2 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 74 KB Total in use: 3297 KB 114% Total free: 74 KB 3% 2010/11/21 16:00:10| Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE14): Exiting normally. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE14 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Process ID 4887 2010/11/21 16:00:13| With 1024 file descriptors available 2010/11/21 16:00:13| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 34896, FD 5 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Adding nameserver 11.0.0.2 from squid.conf 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Adding nameserver X.X.112.8 from squid.conf 2010/11/21 16:00:13| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Referer logging is disabled. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Swap maxSize 9216000 KB, estimated 708923 objects 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Target number of buckets: 35446 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Using 65536 Store buckets 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Max Swap size: 9216000 KB 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Rebuilding storage in /cache1 (CLEAN) 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Using Least Load store dir selection 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Loaded Icons. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Accepting HTTP connections at 11.0.0.1, port 3128, FD 12. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 13. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| WCCP Disabled. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Configuring Parent XXX.XXX.108.92/8080/0 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Ready to serve requests. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Done reading /cache1 swaplog (90 entries) 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 90 Entries scanned 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 0 Invalid entries. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 0 With invalid flags. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 90 Objects loaded. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 0 Objects expired. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 0 Objects cancelled. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Took 0.3 seconds ( 331.3 objects/sec). 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Beginning Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Completed Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 16:00:13| Validated 90 Entries 2010/11/21 16:00:13| store_swap_size = 844k 2010/11/21 16:00:14| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects 2010/11/21 16:05:07| Preparing for shutdown after 117 requests 2010/11/21 16:05:07| Waiting 1 seconds for active connections to finish 2010/11/21 16:05:07| FD 12 Closing HTTP connection 2010/11/21 16:05:09| Shutting down... 2010/11/21 16:05:09| FD 13 Closing ICP connection 2010/11/21 16:05:09| WARNING: Closing client 11.0.0.2 connection due to lifetime timeout 2010/11/21 16:05:09| http://v8.lscache2.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=0.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorithm%2Cburst%2Cfactor%2Coc%3AU0dYRVNRUF9FSkNNOF9LS1RF&fexp=908800%2C900027%2C905602&algorithm=throttle-factor&itag=34&ipbits=0&burst=40&sver=3&expire=1290362400&key=yt1&signature=03FBCB60B03C957FC20BAE0C9E7BCE4545D4CC50.22A2930AE1E4B93B5CE1AC5FBF65A7E4C11DCE2D&factor=1.25&id=9dd7bfe3e84f4680& 2010/11/21 16:05:09| Closing unlinkd pipe on FD 10 2010/11/21 16:05:09| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2010/11/21 16:05:09| Finished. Wrote 113 entries. 2010/11/21 16:05:09| Took 0.0 seconds (269047.6 entries/sec). CPU Usage: 0.542 seconds = 0.263 user + 0.279 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 2508 KB Ordinary blocks: 2361 KB 32 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 5 blks Holding blocks: 468 KB 2 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 146 KB Total in use: 2829 KB 113% Total free: 146 KB 6% 2010/11/21 16:05:09| Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE14): Exiting normally. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE14 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu... 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Process ID 5425 2010/11/21 16:05:12| With 1024 file descriptors available 2010/11/21 16:05:12| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 34897, FD 5 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Adding nameserver 11.0.0.2 from squid.conf 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Adding nameserver XX.XX.112.8 from squid.conf 2010/11/21 16:05:12| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Referer logging is disabled. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Swap maxSize 9216000 KB, estimated 708923 objects 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Target number of buckets: 35446 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Using 65536 Store buckets 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Max Swap size: 9216000 KB 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Rebuilding storage in /cache1 (CLEAN) 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Using Least Load store dir selection 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Loaded Icons. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Accepting HTTP connections at 11.0.0.1, port 3128, FD 12. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 13. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| WCCP Disabled. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Configuring Parent XX.XX.XX.92/8080/0 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Ready to serve requests. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Done reading /cache1 swaplog (113 entries) 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 113 Entries scanned 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 0 Invalid entries. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 0 With invalid flags. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 113 Objects loaded. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 0 Objects expired. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 0 Objects cancelled. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Took 0.3 seconds ( 416.3 objects/sec). 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Beginning Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Completed Validation Procedure 2010/11/21 16:05:12| Validated 113 Entries 2010/11/21 16:05:12| store_swap_size = 1012k 2010/11/21 16:05:13| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects I have check my var log messages file there no negative messages appear on screen regarding squid and there is no cron jobs set for squid restart. Moreover i have clear my cache drives but problem is still not resolve. Your comments in this regard will be highly appreciated.