Re: squid maybe causing crash
In article <cistron.CC2568E4.0009568C.00@diagnack1.diagnostic.co.nz>,
<zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz> wrote:
>i just had my mail/internet server crash. It took a while for fsck to fix
>the problem... but most of the errors point to squid caching
>directories.... is there a connection here???
Well yes, squid is a process that has a lot of files open. When a box
crashes, the files with the most damage are files that were open
for writing at the time of the crash.
As for a process causing a box to crash, that should never happen. If
a program crashes a box, it's not the fault of the program, it's a
kernel bug or, more likely, some hardware problem. User level programs
should not be able to crash a box - remember, this is not windows.
Mike.
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