On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:18:05AM +1000, Robert Davidson wrote: > Has anyone found a free, decent alternative to Squid? > > Our ones keep giving us trouble, such as: > > Dying in the middle of the night for no apparent reason, > > Filling up the drive that Squid maintains a cache on (despite > it being told not to use all of the hdd space). > > Those errors are happening too frequently. If anyone has any questions > or thinks they might be able to help in some way, please get back to > me. > > We have multiple squid servers with different setups (hard drive space > wise) they all seem to exhibit the same problems.
No idea what might be causing the second problem, but the mysterious deaths can easily be monitored-for with a shell script in a cronjob and squid can be restarted and an e-mail sent to the admin when it happens with various system information... just takes a little bit of creativity and time to write one. -- Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
