Re: why Squid 2 overruns cache size ?

I'm seeing a similar problem, not sure if it's related.

Basically, as the cache fills up the disk usage increases, but I see
strange results from a df -k, where the total disk space is reported as
6400megs with 5400meg used, but there are only 200megs available. Squid
eventually reaches the limit and resizes the swap size down a few
hundred megs and things return to normal. Setting the disk size lower I
can see the disk usage (as reported by df) fill up to near 95% and then
drop off significantly, before Squid reaches 90% and starts LRU. The
usage appears to stabilise after the cache has been full for a few days,
then I can increase the cache_dir size.

Any ideas?

Chuck

Gary White wrote:
>
> Hi-
> Upon changing from Squid 1.NOVM to Squid 2.0 PATCH 2, my
> Squid installation ignores the size specification in squid.conf
> which I had as
> cache_dir /cache 3500 16 256
> as I was hoping to have 3.5 GB or so be my cache size. (This is
> on Solaris 2.5.1, with a 4 GB disk. All this worked fine with the previous
> version. But, even though unlinkd seemed to be occasionally
> deleting files, the total usage just kept going until the disk filled.
> Changing from 3500 to 2500 didn't matter.
>
> Any suggestions on what I might have done wrong, or what
> to check? No doubt I've done something dumb somewhere.
>
> Thanks!!
> -Gary
>
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Received on Sun Nov 08 1998 - 18:22:55 MST