Re: No swap.state safe?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:52:32 +0100

Or move them to a bigger place.. see the cache_swap_log directive.

Regards
Henrik

Joe Cooper wrote:
>
> I haven't tried it yet, and I'm in the middle of the Polymix-4 run so
> can't test it, but while digging through the logs to see the "reasons
> we've crashed today", I realized a problem with the ramdisk--swap.state
> grows faster than I normally rotate (quite a lot faster during a fill)
> leading it to overrun the disk and crash Squid. The good news is that
> every crash over the past week has a good explanation, and it was never
> due to Squid bugs, unless you count fragility in the face of full disks
> a bug.
>
> Is it safe to route it to /dev/null or even hack Squid to disable it
> entirely? As far as I know it's only used on restarts to speed the
> building of the in-memory cache state...so can I kill it or should I
> just remove it hourly and squid -k rotate?
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> http://www.swelltech.com
> Web Caching Appliances and Support
Received on Sat Nov 10 2001 - 04:39:21 MST

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