Re: [squid-users] Howto Clear Cache Periodicaly

Hello,

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Make sure that your disk access performance, for instance, is adequate
for the SQUID induced disk I/O load.

For the computer that is running Squid it is a Dual core 3 ghz, there is
2 gig of ram. The disk are scsi. I don't think that it is the machine
that is having the probleme. There is no probleme with the access to
disk.
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There might be solution somewhere. I mean I should not have to reset my
cache. The computer is strong enough. But still it went really slow (so
slow that browsing the web was imposible)and restarting squid with a new
cache solved the problem. What can I do to be sure that this does not
happen again

Thanks in advance
Guillaume

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:53 +0200, Mark Elsen wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have a squid that has been caching for like 10 month. It now have an
> > amazing size of 4.5 gig.
>
> What you have is determined by the cache_dir specifications
> in squid.conf. The size there is taken into account , and SQUID will
> trimm cache dirs automatically if that would be needed.
>
>
> > When browsing on the web, it is now very very
> > slow. I restarted squid with a clean cache. Everything was fine again. I
> > was wondering if there were a way to tell squid to clean cache
> > periodicaly?! So I would not have to do it myself.
> >
>
> - The idea of a caching proxy is to have a cache, and to benefit
> from that, not clean it.
> I run SQUID with the same cache dir and or squid maintained content
> for more then year without touching it.
> And or touching it alone, if serious SYSTEM or disk problems would occur.
>
> Make sure that your disk access performance, for instance, is adequate
> for the SQUID induced disk I/O load.
>
> M.
Received on Tue Apr 11 2006 - 07:24:41 MDT