[squid-users] Too few redirector processes are running

Hello,

I have redirector_children 10 in my config file, but I keep getting the
entry below, over and over again in my cache.log when I go to
http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive:

<snip>
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0-PRE3-CVS for
i686-pc-linux-gnu...
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Process ID 6587
2003/12/18 23:01:30| With 1024 file descriptors available
2003/12/18 23:01:30| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32785, FD 4
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Adding nameserver 192.168.1.5 from /etc/resolv.conf
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Adding nameserver 216.19.2.80 from /etc/resolv.conf
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Adding nameserver 63.169.42.12 from
/etc/resolv.conf
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Adding nameserver 209.140.24.33 from
/etc/resolv.conf
2003/12/18 23:01:30| helperOpenServers: Starting 10 'orsquidGuard'
processes
2003/12/18 23:01:30| helperOpenServers: Starting 10 'ncsa_auth'
processes
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 29
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Target number of buckets: 393
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Using 8192 Store buckets
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Rebuilding storage in /usr/local/orsquid/var/cache
(CLEAN)
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Using Least Load store dir selection
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Set Current Directory to /usr/local/squid/var/cache
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Loaded Icons.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 8940,
FD 31.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| WCCP Disabled.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Ready to serve requests.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Done reading /usr/local/orsquid/var/cache swaplog
(1692 entries)
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 1692 Entries scanned
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 0 Invalid entries.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 0 With invalid flags.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 1692 Objects loaded.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 0 Objects expired.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 0 Objects cancelled.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 0 Duplicate URLs purged.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided.
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Took 0.0 seconds (46286.4 objects/sec).
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Beginning Validation Procedure
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Completed Validation Procedure
2003/12/18 23:01:30| Validated 1692 Entries
2003/12/18 23:01:30| store_swap_size = 14540k
2003/12/18 23:01:30| WARNING: redirector #1 (FD 5) exited
2003/12/18 23:01:31| WARNING: redirector #2 (FD 6) exited
2003/12/18 23:01:31| WARNING: redirector #3 (FD 7) exited
2003/12/18 23:01:31| WARNING: redirector #4 (FD 8) exited
2003/12/18 23:01:31| WARNING: redirector #5 (FD 9) exited
2003/12/18 23:01:31| WARNING: redirector #6 (FD 10) exited
2003/12/18 23:01:31| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting...
2003/12/18 23:01:31| Finished. Wrote 1692 entries.
2003/12/18 23:01:31| Took 0.0 seconds (839702.2 entries/sec).
FATAL: Too few redirector processes are running
Squid Cache (Version 3.0-PRE3-CVS): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.090 seconds = 0.040 user + 0.050 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 470
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
total space in arena: 2918 KB
Ordinary blocks: 2897 KB 9 blks
Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
Holding blocks: 2396 KB 13 blks
Free Small blocks: 0 KB
Free Ordinary blocks: 20 KB
Total in use: 5293 KB 181%
Total free: 20 KB 1%

<snip>

I bumped redirector_children to 40, and still got he same message
repeated over and over.

Is this telling me that my redirectors are dying from an error in the
redirector code, or what?

Thanks,

Murrah Boswell