Re: [SQU] Cache Dir

The DIRTY on startup means that squid crashed, and can't 'speed-load' the index (swaplog) of the cache dir into memory.

So it performs a sanity check on the swap logfile if it exists, and if it doesn't it reads the contents off the disk (yes at 1 file
i/o per cached object. Then when that is finished, the next time squid shuts down cleanly, the in-memory index is written to disk.
The startup after that will show CLEAN.

So, let squid run and don't worry about the DIRTY warning. Check you logs and see why squid is crashing and fix that.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan Cusi III" <tristan@netasia-angeles.net>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 6:56 AM
Subject: [SQU] Cache Dir

>
> Hi to all!
>
> Just got something that bothers me, my cache space
> is configured in this manner:
>
> cache_dir ufs /hdd/cache 18000 64 256
>
> and have completely rebuilt it, the reason was
> that my cache.log shows that the dir is "(DIRTY)"
> and after a complete rebuilt it still reads the
> same. I was wondering if I did anything wrong or
> how do get this to read "(CLEAN)" as what I have
> sometime ago.
>
> There was no incident that may have caused this e.g.
> powerfailures etc.
>
> Also, the cache swap (/hdd/cache/) is residing on a
> dedicated 20GB HDD. And am running RH 6.2 with SQUID 2.3.STABLE4
> with 128MB of RAM in a PII-400. Squid uses 64MB for its objects.
>
> Any input is highly appereciated.
>
> Tristan
>
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