Re: [squid-users] cache dir keeps growing

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:33:50 +0200

Good question.

Check if there is any huge files in the cache directories.

find /squid -size +500000 -ls

Are you periodically rotating your logs? If not then swap.state may grow
really huge

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Martin Chandler wrote:
>
> I have just switched over my squid proxy from a FreeBSD server to Linux 2.4.7
> squid 2.3.STABLE5, and what had worked before does no more. My cache just
> keeps growning.
>
> from squid.conf:
> cache_dir ufs /squid 1024 16 256
>
> [root@proxy]# df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6 241116 82260 146408 36% /
> /dev/sda5 93309 7299 81193 8% /boot
> /dev/sda10 1027768 44 975516 0% /home
> /dev/sda11 11653788 2950000 8111796 27% /squid
> /dev/sda8 3020140 374172 2492552 13% /usr
> /dev/sda9 1027768 351920 623640 36% /var
>
> I am currently using the GDSF replacement policy. The cachemgr storedir
> section looks like this,
>
> Store Directory Statistics:
> Store Entries : 110807
> Maximum Swap Size : 1048576 KB
> Current Store Swap Size: 943021 KB
> Current Capacity : 90% used, 10% free
>
> Store Directory #0: /squid
> First level subdirectories: 16
> Second level subdirectories: 256
> Maximum Size: 1048576 KB
> Current Size: 943021 KB
> Percent Used: 89.93%
> Filemap bits in use: 110477 of 262144 (42%)
> Filesystem Space in use: 2947264/11653788 KB (25%)
> Filesystem Inodes in use: 242820/1482208 (16%)
> Flags:
>
> so evidently it thinks it is within bounds. What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
Received on Fri Oct 12 2001 - 13:34:26 MDT

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