[plug] Bad blocks in Swap

[Garth Atkinson]

Hi Brad

I think the bad blocks are still there in your swap.

Garth

Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> G'day all
> I have had an intermittent problem for a while on my gateway/proxy
> box, where squid seems to lock up. No abnormal log messages, but just
> accepts connections, and sits idle.
> 
> By chance, it seemed that this coincided with some nasty hda errors in
> the syslog. So I did a swapoff and ran badblocks on my swap partition,
> to find about 6 bad blocks, pretty early on in the file.
> mkswap -c fixed that. But I'm wondering if that could have caused my squid
> problems. I came in this morning to find squid locked up again, but I did
> not re-start it yesterday after fixing the bad blocks, so I guess it could
> have had a corrupt page somewhere waiting to freeze it up..
> 
> when I used an /etc/init.d/squid stop
> it failed to halt squid, I had to kill it with a killall -TERM squid, so
> something was nicely frozen..
> Running Debian potato, squid 2.2.5-3 straight from Debian..
> It locks up every couple of weeks..
> The box also runs samba, and serves files/printers, plus does all the
> net masq work. squid is the only thing that causes trouble..
> 
> Interesting to see if it continues now..
> Anyone had any problems like this in the past ?
> 
> --
> Brad....
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