Squid +pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)

[eculp at bafirst.com]

Quoting Vasil Dimov <vd at datamax.bg>:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:15:54AM -0500, Edwin L. Culp wrote:
>> 4 Current servers running current and squid-2.5.11_3 that had no
>> problems maybe a month ago are now dumping core and logging the
>> following:
>>
>> +pid 48635 (squid), uid 100: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
>>
>> I have no idea where to begin looking.  From the squid list and saw
>> where it could be caused by persistent connections on some platforms so
>> I turned them off and there was no change.
>>
>> All the machines are running up to date ports, with kernel and userland
>> no more that a week old and there are both Intel and amd processors.
>> One box has multiple processors so it doesn't seem to be a hardware
>> issue due to the diversity. Any help or suggestions for what I might
>> try will be very much appreciated.
>>
>> ed
>
> You should firstly locate the core file and get a backtrace with gdb.
> Compiling as much as possible stuff with -g (and without -O) and
> preventing strip(1) in the install step will help you to get more
> useful backtrace.
>

You are right, Vasil.  I will start on that.  I had hoped that someone 
else was seeing the problem and had solved it with configuration or 
recompile with changed flags, etc.  One can always hope and dream ;-)

Thanks,

ed