Re: [squid-users] Question about access log write speed and a possible DOS-attack (client-side)

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:22:00 -0800

Peter Smith wrote:
> Wow. What a rookie I've turned out to be. I hadn't even considered
> that being the reason for Squid shutting off. Thankfully I haven't
> hit that in a very long time. You are correct, both Squids were
> affected by their access.log file being 2147483647 (2^31 -1) bytes in
> size.
>
> Now I'm off to look at the FAQs, etc, on perhaps compiling Squid w/
> large-file-access..
>
> Thanks, Henrik, you always come through.
>
> Peter
>
[chris@server squid-2.5.STABLE13]$ ./configure --help

SNIP

  --with-large-files Enable support for large files (logs etc).
  --enable-large-cache-files
                          Enable support for large cache files (>2GB).
                          WARNING: on-disk cache format is changed by
this option

SNIP

Chris
Received on Wed Oct 11 2006 - 14:22:10 MDT

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