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From: Alex Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Squid eating up all CPU
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:03:47 +0400
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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:50:46PM +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote:
> On Tue 7 September 2004 15:52, Alex Zarochentsev wrote:
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> > > Everything seems to work well, except..the Squid process is eating up all CPU:
> > > 
> > >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > >  4787 proxy     39   0 45700  10m 2580 R 87.7  1.4   7:12.94 squid
> 
> > can you boot the kernel with profile=2 boot parameter and get profile info for
> > the period when nothing except squid is active?
> > 
> > echo 1 > /proc/profile
> > sleep 300
> > cat /proc/profile  | readprofile -m [<actual system map file> | sort -rn | head -n 20
> > 
> > I think reiser4 should be built not as a module otherwise System.map would not
> > contain reiser4 symbols.
> 
> I don't think Reiser4 is at fault here:
> 
> I found out that the Weatherfox plugin for Firefox had caused Firefox to
> crash, and therefore every time I started Firefox the Quality Feedback 
> Agent tried to send a message.
> 
> For some reason that didn't work, and the following entries showed up in 
> Squid's access.log after a LONG time:
> 
> 1094561818.215 1041126 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/504 1467 POST http://talkback.mozilla.org/spiral-bin/Collector.dll - DIRECT/207.126.111.208 text/html
> 1094561860.054 1004601 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/504 1467 POST http://talkback.mozilla.org/spiral-bin/Collector.dll - DIRECT/207.126.111.208 text/html
> 1094561860.054 945630 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/504 1467 POST http://talkback.mozilla.org/spiral-bin/Collector.dll - DIRECT/207.126.111.208 text/html
> 
> Apparently the QFA continued to do this even after closing both its window
> and Firefox, without any relevant processes showing up with ps..?!
> 
> Does this sound familiar?

there should be the QFA process, I think. 

> 
> After I uninstalled the Weatherfox extension the symptoms disappeared.
> 
> I'll try to reproduce it though..
> 
> Ray

-- 
Alex.