Dear Amos, Running squid with -s option but it does not forwards the cache.log to the syslog. I updated my config and now I have the following. I think it is related to the acl lines I reordered but a Segmentation fault is not tolerable anyway : 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| storeGet: looking up C36EBB2A20731F6BA7BD38C62469E2C3 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| clientProcessRequest2: default HIT 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| StoreEntry::lock: key 'C36EBB2A20731F6BA7BD38C62469E2C3' count=1 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| UFSSwapDir::reference: referencing 0xc19b90 0/526 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| MemObject.cc(76) MemObject: new MemObject 0xd37ce0 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| store_client::copy: C36EBB2A20731F6BA7BD38C62469E2C3, from 0, for length 4096, cb 1, cbdata 0xd357f8 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| storeClientCopy2: C36EBB2A20731F6BA7BD38C62469E2C3 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| store_client::doCopy: co: 0, hi: 0 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| store_client::doCopy: Need to open swap in file 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| storeSwapInStart: called for : 0 0000020E C36EBB2A20731F6BA7BD38C62469E2C3 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| storeSwapInStart: Opening fileno 0000020E 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| UFSStrategy::open: fileno 0000020E 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| UFSFile::UFSFile: /cache/00/02/0000020E 2011/06/12 12:23:50.204| store_client::doCopy: reading from STORE FATAL: Received Segment Violation...dying. 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.206| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.207| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.207| ACL::~ACL: ' 2011/06/12 12:23:50.207| ACL::~ACL: ' my config is as follows: cache_mem 600 MB dead_peer_timeout 30 seconds hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY maximum_object_size 50 MB maximum_object_size_in_memory 100 KB minimum_object_size 0 KB cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA memory_replacement_policy heap LRU acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1 acl to_localhost dst x.x.x.x/32 acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access deny to_localhost acl valid1 src x.x.x.0/24 acl valid2 src x.x.x.0/24 http_access allow valid1 http_access allow valid2 http_access allow localhost http_access allow localnet http_access allow to_localhost http_access deny all http_port 3128 tproxy cache_dir aufs /cache 4000 16 256 coredump_dir cache refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv|mpg|wma|ogg|wmv|asx|asf)$ 260000 90% 260009 override-expire refresh_pattern -i \.(deb|rpm|exe|zip|tar|tgz|ram|rar|bin|ppt|doc|tiff|pdf|uxx)$ 260000 90% 260009 override-expire # Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these. refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid half_closed_clients off buffered_logs on client_db off quick_abort_max 0 KB quick_abort_min 0 KB memory_pools off cache_swap_high 95% cache_swap_low 90 logfile_rotate 10 visible_hostname cache.x.com cache_mgr info@xxxxx quick_abort_min 32 KB quick_abort_max 32 KB quick_abort_pct 95 negative_ttl 3 minutes positive_dns_ttl 6 hours pipeline_prefetch on acl snmpkey snmp_community public snmp_port 3401 snmp_access allow snmpkey localhost snmp_access deny all debug_options ALL,6 Yours Faithfully, --- Amir H Shenavandeh