Re: [SQU] HELP: cache too big!

I've found that if Squid 2.2.STABLE5 (I don't know about later versions)
is being shut down improperly or crashes (due to load, for example) on a
regular basis the cache object store will grow, because Squid will
'lose' objects in the store. The objects will still be present, as
files, but the store index will not know about them. Deleting your
swap.state file(s), starting squid, and giving it a few minutes/hours to
rebuild it's swap.state fixes this problem.

Also, find out why your squid is being shut down improperly, and change
that. If your Squid has never crashed or been shutdown improperly
then this isn't your problem and won't solve it in the long run. But
I've never run into any other issues that can lead to the symptoms
described.

Matt Ashfield wrote:

> Hello,
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> I still have not found a reason why my cache continues to grow beyond
> what was specified in my cache_dir directive....
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> My /cache filesystem is set to just over 1GB...my cachedir directive
> from squid.conf looks like:
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> cache_dir ufs /cache 400 16 256
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> HOwever, I am already using over 70% of my 1GB cache filesystem, which
> is nearly double the size I specified in squid.conf
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> I have a reference age of 1 month for objects in my cache.
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> I am running squid 2.2STABLE5 on AIX 4.3.3
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> Any ideas?

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                      Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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