Re: Ok to erase unused L1 cache directory?

Hi Steve,

I strongly recommend against reducing these values downwards after squid has
been run. I did so myself as an experiment, and ended up with squid
assertions as squid went looking for the directory which no longer existed,
and all sorts of problems (as well as losing a chunk of my cache).

You probably won't gain much by reducing it downwards anyway apart from a
few inodes which hold directory infomation...

Reuben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Snyder" <swsnyder@home.com>
To: "Squid Mailing List" <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 6:08 AM
Subject: Ok to erase unused L1 cache directory?

> I have Squid 2.2S5 (on Linux) running with this cache configuration:
>
> cache_dir /var/spool/squid 256 2 254
>
> As you can see, I have a total of (508 = 2 * 254) directories defined.
> I now have 95% of my 256MB cache in use and have only used 133
> (0x85) L2 directories to contain those cached files.
>
> My actual average file size is 7.5KB, and this is my defined average
> size:
>
> store_avg_object_size 8 KB
>
> It seems that I only need half of the directories I originally created
> for Squid. I'm thinking of retaining L1 dir #00 and erasing unused L1
> dir #01. Can I just stop Squid, adjust the L1 value in squid.conf,
> erase L1 dir #01, and restart Squid? Will that confuse Squid?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> *** Steve Snyder ***
>
>
Received on Mon Feb 21 2000 - 18:51:46 MST