On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 06:29:26AM +0000, mdecheser@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > My take on all this is that it appears the server may be starved for memory. I have seen other strange behaviors such mysqld, squid, and pptpd daemons dying randomly. I've seen squid daemon restart for reasons unknown (though the above cache.log suggests a cache digest rebuild every 3600 seconds). > You think? From that config you have told squid to reserve half the memory on the system for cache, on top of which you tell it to create a 16GB cache which takes about 10MB per GB of memory to manage and then on top of that you run mysql and other stuff. > Are there any obvious mistakes I've made here? I do plan to run my production proxy with more memory and am not in objection to adding more memory to this environment, but would like to do so with an understanding of the issues before moving forward. > I think you need to read this first: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidMemory You definitely want to put more memory in the machine, the more the better... (up to a point since you are using 32 bit). -- Brett Lymn "Warning: The information contained in this email and any attached files is confidential to BAE Systems Australia. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email or any attachments is expressly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately. VIRUS: Every care has been taken to ensure this email and its attachments are virus free, however, any loss or damage incurred in using this email is not the sender's responsibility. It is your responsibility to ensure virus checks are completed before installing any data sent in this email to your computer."
