[squid-users] Squid 5 service stops after assertion failure

[Amos Jeffries]

On 25/01/21 10:42 am, Vieri wrote:
> 
> After the assertion failure Squid tries to restart a few times (assertion failures seen again) and finally exits.
> A manual restart works, but I don't know for how long.
> 
> The external script "bllookup" is probably responsible for bad output,

That is a certainty.


> but maybe Squid could handle it without crashing.
> 

As you noticed, Squid halts service only after the helper fails 10 
multiple times in a row. Before that Squid is restarting the helper to 
see if it was a temporary issue.


Would you prefer Squid sucks up all the TCP/IP resources on the machine 
for clients waiting on this helper to start work?

Or Squid to start mixing up the results so each client A lookup is 
determining the output of some other client B's transaction?


Amos