RE: [cobalt-users] Squid consuming 100% of cpu rescs: newbie

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> My Cobalt Qube3 pro run squid for the proxy, but the problem 
> is the squid 
> consuming almost 100% of my cpu resourcess.
> Is it becouse the cobalt is not using the latest version of 
> squid or i 
> have to debuging the squid.conf to make it more lower the cpu 
> state need.
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OK, the reason is because the version of squid on the Qube3 is Squid 2.3.STABLE3, which has a known bug where when the cache size reaches the set limit it doesn't correctly unlink (delete) the files, it jumps to 100% cpu and doesn't delete anything, so causing disk-space & CPU problems.

The only way i've found of correcting this (Never tried on Qube's though, only on normal Slakware Linux boxes) is to apply the diff issued which is squid-2.3.stable3-storeExpiredReferenceAge.patch

However, this must be done to the source before compilation, and i'm unsure if Cobalt has done anything unusual to the squid during compilation.
If anyone out there has a spare Qube3, they could try either getting the new squid from www.squid-cache.org and compiling see if the Qube still works, or try getting the old 2.3.stable3 and applying the patch to correct this.

Regards,

Andy
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