Re: [squid-users] squid / swap usage.

14-Mar-02 at 20:52, orko (orko@bigpond.net.au) wrote :
> Thanks, that clears thing up a a lot. With the cache_dir directive -
> when squid notices that this value has been reduced, obviously it
> shrieks, but does it then start removing objects itself to meet the new
> cache_dir value? (if not, what's the quickest/most painless method of
> bringing the spool size down to the new cache_dir value? (rm seems a
> little aggressive, but is it the best solution or is leaving squid alone
> the way to go?)

I would say the best thing is to rebuild the cache_dir cleanly, rm -rf
(cache_dir) and then squid -z

You lose your cached files, but anything else could cause problems anyway.

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