I can also confirm, asserts are disappearing with diskd. I still get all the warnings, but there's no crash. What e relief. Niki On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Mike Mitchell <Mike.Mitchell@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I followed the advice found here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg95078.html > > Switching to diskd from aufs fixed the crashes for me. > I still get > WARNING: swapfile header inconsistent with available data > messages in the log. They appear within a hour of starting with a clean cache. > When I clean the cache I stop squid, rename the cache directory, create a new cache directory, > start removing the old cache directory, then run "squid -z" before starting squid. > > I run the following commands: > > /etc/init.d/squid stop > sleep 5 > rm -f /var/squid/core* > rm -f /var/squid/swap.state* > rm -rf /var/squid/cache.hold > mv /var/squid/cache /var/squid/cache.hold > rm -rf /var/squid/cache.hold & > squid -z > /etc/init.d/squid start > > I'm running on a Red Hat Linux VM. > Here is the output of 'uname -rv': > 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT 2010 > > Squid Cache: Version 3.4.5-20140514-r13135 > configure options: '--with-maxfd=16384' '--enable-storeio=diskd' '--enable-removal-policies=heap' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-wccpv2' '--enable-auth-basic=DB NCSA NIS POP3 RADIUS fake getpwnam' '--enable-auth-digest=file' '--with-krb5-config=no' '--disable-auth-ntlm' '--disable-auth-negotiate' '--disable-external-acl-helpers' '--disable-ipv6' --enable-ltdl-convenience > > Mike Mitchell > > >