zoneli

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 11/27/06, admin <admin at azuni.net> wrote:
> Hi! From time to time our moderately loaded Squid 2.6.3 (~500
> simultaneous clients, ~5000 req/min) stops responding all of a sudden,
> its status being 'zoneli' according to top(1), and nothing short of a
> machine reboot can bring it back to life.

It's a known problem and being worked on:
http://www.google.com/search?q=squid+freebsd+zoneli
(also check archive of stable@ mailing list from a few
days back)