[Server-devel] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

Adam Holt holt at laptop.org
Fri May 6 00:29:37 EDT 2016


On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Anish Mangal <anishmg at umich.edu> wrote:

> Yesterday, an interesting issue happened. On an older XSCE install, the
> squid cache bloated over time to create a 300GB swap file and made the
> server unusable. I was wondering if anyone else may have come across this
> before?
>

Yes, much the same occurred on an XSCE 5.1+ in Rwanda earlier this year.
It's very serious (squid bloat filled the terabyte drive, chock full) and
needs investigation, thanks for circulating~

Attached is the munin screenshot showing the increasing disk usage over
> time. I deleted the file and things are back to normal - for now.
>
> The xsce git hash is 9a072ead3da91b84e6db896554c50bfa37e7b4e6
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