Re: [squid-users] compact the swap.state without restarting and rotating the logfiles ?

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Dieter Bloms wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use squid 2.7.STABLE6 and let the logrotate mechanism roting the
>> logfiles.
>> After renameing the logfiles I call a "squid -k reconfigure", so squid
>> can open new logfiles.
>> But the swap.state is growing and growing.
>
> Yes, its an incremental journal. Growth is normal.
>
>> When I restart squid, or when I do a "squid -k logrotate", then the
>> swap.state gets smaller, but with a "squid -k logrotate" I get many
>> logfile.[0-9] files, which I don't want.
>> So is there a command line option to let squid compact the swap.state
>> file without logfile rotation and without restarting squid ?
>
> No command line option.
>
> Set squid.conf option:
> logfile_rotate 0
>
> This will leave Squid trusting the external logrotate mechanism to
> rename the log files for it.
> (NP: logrotate.d config uses postrotate to squid -k rotate right?)

Affirmative.

>
> Amos

Chris
Received on Tue Jul 21 2009 - 01:22:28 MDT