hi the swap.state corruption is a real problem. Since I have no time for learning the squid sources and find out what it is I wrote a workaround which seams to protect from this to happen.
the swap.state corruption is appearing after squid receives the first requests while rebuilding the swap.state. In latest versions the -F flag does not help anymore, some weeks ago (< 2.6-stable19) it still was a valid workaround. So what my startup script does is injecting a firewall rule blocking any incoming tcp:8080, reading the log, detecting when swap.state is ready and then on single instances remove the initial firewall rule, or in multi instance scenario start the process which receive the client requests only when the swap.dirs are ready. So if someone is interested ask me in pvt or if I do not step on someones tail here I can post it to the list. michel ... **************************************************** Tecnologia Internet Matik http://info.matik.com.br Sistemas Wireless para o Provedor Banda Larga Hospedagem e Email personalizado - e claro, no Brasil. ****************************************************