Re: [squid-users] Cache problem- should i remove the cache In doingso will it be recrated once gain ?

Jyotishmaan Ray wrote:
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> >> Secondly as of now the my proxy-server's disk usage is as shown below:
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> > run: du -sh /var/*
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> The output is as shown below:
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> [root_at_stud-pxy ~]# du -sh /var/*
> 12K /var/account
> 127M /var/cache
> 8.0K /var/cvs
> 24K /var/db
> 16K /var/empty
> 16K /var/ftp
> 8.0K /var/games
> 12K /var/gdm
> 137M /var/lib
> 8.0K /var/local
> 40K /var/lock
> 10G /var/log
> 20K /var/lost+found
> 4.0K /var/mail
> 220K /var/named
> 8.0K /var/net-snmp
> 8.0K /var/nis
> 8.0K /var/opt
> 8.0K /var/preserve
> 8.0K /var/racoon
> 384K /var/run
> 1.8G /var/spool
> 2.5M /var/tmp
> 12M /var/www
> 24K /var/yp
> [root_at_stud-pxy ~]#
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> Now tell me should I delete /var/cache as it occupies around 127M of the
> disk space. In doing so it will create a lot of free space in the /var
> partition, but then how good it would be for the cache ??
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> Will it become too slow as then cache has been removed ?

Ah, /var/cache usually contains the combined caches of many system
services. You can see which ones by "ls -la /var/cache"

The worst problem you have is as I suspected the logs at ~10,000 MB,
next biggest is the /var/spool at ~2,000 MB (which is probably where
squid cache data actually is).

Find out whats leaving so many of such big logs and see if you can cut
the size down a bit.

Amos

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> Give the pointers and the step-wise solution of the problem.
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> > Which will show you what parts of /var/ are the biggest space users and
> > then recurse down to see what inside them is wasting space.
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> >> Give some poniters, as i am a new bie.
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> >> As of now, I keep deleting the files which are created on daily basis.
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> > huh? what filenames?
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> yup these files are generated to keep track of the sites visited by the
> student users more than 1000, to keep a check on :
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> they are crated on the directory:
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> /var/www/sarg/daily
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> The filenames are of the type:
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> 2008Sep10-2008Sep10
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