AW: [squid-users] purge from cache

arg, that was it... the cache_dir was set to 100000
but there is only 70 GB available.

thanks for your help!

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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. April 2004 12:10
> An: Henrik Steffen
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Betreff: Re: [squid-users] purge from cache
> 
> 
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Henrik Steffen wrote:
> 
> > after having started with a clean cache on February, 14th
> > my cache-folder has meanwhile increased to a size of
> > 68 GB, which makes 96 % of the available space on that
> > partition.
> 
> How large is your cache_dir?
> 
> > However, there are still objects as e.g.
> > ~/cache/01/01/00100040 which has been saved on March, 8th
> > and where the header within the cache-object says:
> > 
> > Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 06:41:59 GMT
> > Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix)
> > Cache-Control: max-age=1800
> > Expires: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 07:11:59 GMT
> > ...
> > ...
> >
> > Now I wonder: Why hasn't this object been purged by squid yet?
> 
> Most likely this object has been revalidated with the origin 
> server and 
> found to still be fresh.
> 
> > Squid just consumes more and more diskspace, until 100 % is full,
> > and then crashes. Shouldn't squid be able to purge these files
> > automatically after expiration time?
> 
> Squid is supposed to keep your cache_dir at the configured size.
> 
> Most often this type of problem is due to not have configured log 
> rotation, causing Squid to use wast amount of space for logs 
> (including 
> swap.state).
> 
> > What I do now, is to start with a clean cache after 40-50 days.
> > The cachedir then immediately increases by 2-3 GB every day.
> > 
> > But that's not the way it is supposed to work, is it?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Don't know.
> 
> Please look into
> 
>    a) Your cache_dir configuration
> 
>    b) What inside your cache_dir is using this much space, if 
> possible.
> 
>    c) Version of Squid used.
> 
> Regards
> Henrik
>