Re: 2.5.59-mm5

Andrew Morton
2003-01-26T04:04:11Z

Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org> wrote:
>
> and the squidguard processes proceed to take most of the cpu. Each
> of the squidguard processes takes about 17% of the cpu. These keep
> running after apt finshes and the system time drops when they end...
>
> ...
>
> Does this help?

Not a lot. Looks like squidguard has gone berzerk reading lots of stuff from
pagecache. Could be that it has a bug which is triggered by subtly altered
kernel behaviour, or a subtle bug in the kernel broke it.

Do any other applications exhibit the same behaviour?

Can you generate a simple, standalone usage of squidguard which exhibits this
behaviour? Just starting them up??

You may need to build your own squidguard and attach gdb to one, see what
it's up to.