Re: [squid-users] Can not increase the cache_dir size

Thanks for the replay
i have reinstalled the system and the problem disappeared, it seems
that i have a "broken kernel"

But i have noticed another starnge behavior today for which i posted
another message here

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:39:22 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas
<uhlar@fantomas.sk> wrote:
> On 26.12 23:23, Houssam Melhem wrote:
> > I unmounted the all my 10 drives
> > then i mkefs eache
> >
> > But I got the same thing
> >
> > Today I tried the folloeing to have more than 4GB of cache_size
> > i made 10 sub director on each harddisk
> > i made each one a cache_dir with size=400M
>
> bad bad. only define one cache directory on one harddisk.
>
> > I know that this is crazy, and there should be another way of
> > increasing the cache_dir size I only have now 28G But each hard drive
> > is 143 GB
>
> in addition to alredy recommended running 'squid -z'
>
> I would say that you will have that many objects in your cache that you
> will run out of memory. If you are on 32-bit system of course processes
> have 4GB memomry limit there and even metadata of your cache will take
> more than this limit.
>
> Defining higher maximum_object_size can delay this problem for some time.
> I would even recommend you doing this, if you have that big cache.
>
> Then, you will need to do different things with your cache.
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Received on Sat Jan 08 2005 - 13:03:56 MST