On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:41:49 +0200, Ananth wrote: > Dear Squid users, > > I am running Squid Cache: Version 3.1.8 on Fedora core 12, 8 GB RAM, > Intel xeon quad core 2.4 GHz processor. > > my HTTP requests: > client_http.requests = 245.456913/sec > client_http.hits = 75.313005/sec > > > File descriptor usage for squid: > Maximum number of file descriptors: 32768 > Largest file desc currently in use: 8097 > Number of file desc currently in use: 7108 > Files queued for open: 46 > Available number of file descriptors: 25614 > Reserved number of file descriptors: 100 > Store Disk files open: 126 > > cache_mem 3 GB > > the problem i m facing is the squid service keep restarting ever 3 > hours. can any suggest me why its happening. Check cache.log. Squid dumps out a failure reason when the worker dies. Look for "FATAL" and a few lines beforehand just before the "Starting Squid" lines. If all you can find is "Squid exiting normally" then it is caused by someone or something sending Squid a shutdown/restart message. Amos