Aw: [squid-users] Running two squid3 process, Why?

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Von: Sachin Malave <sachinmalave_at_gmail.com>
An: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Datum: 01.08.2009 14:37
Betreff: [squid-users] Running two squid3 process, Why?

> I am using squid3, After starting squid It creates two process
>
> $sudo squid3
> $ps -A
>
> It displays something like......
>                     .
>                     .
>  6325 ?        00:00:00 squid3
>  6327 ?        00:00:25 squid3
>  6328 ?        00:00:00 unlinkd
>  6367 ?       .
>                    .
>                    .
>
> Can anybody tell me why it has created two processes?
>

Well, from my looking at the sources years ago, one process is the parent, who does nothing but monitor the child, another process is the child, who does the actual http request handling. When child dies due to some exception, parent will re-launch another new child.

Jeff.

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Received on Sat Aug 01 2009 - 13:17:26 MDT