Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] squid - Disable on-disk Cache?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

Yeah, I don't have many users on my diskless squid box.

It seems like with 500 users, big fast hard drive(s) to hold a lot of
cache would be worth the investment in bandwidth savings.

 - BS


> Yeah, with 500 people going through it however, that cache_swap_log
> continues to grow, just under 1k/sec.  Afterhours it doesn't gain much
> at all.  So far I've not seen it stop, just gain space.  The squid -k
> rotate is what I used to do, but now I'm using squidGuard with a huge
> blacklist service ( http://urlblacklist.com/ ) so with 5 child
> processes it takes about a minute of downtime for it to be ready to
> roll again.  For right now, this hasn't been a big issue, as it's an
> HA cluster, and I can just rebuild it on the secondary node, and
> failover to it. 
> 
> Dave
> 
> On 9/5/06, Bruce Smith <bw...@ar...> wrote:
>         > Hmmm.  Might I ask what you did for the
>         cache_swap_log ?  That's one
>         > file I've not got contained either!
>         
>         I didn't do anything with it, just left the defaults in
>         squid.conf.
>         
>         Maybe it doesn't get very large if you set the cache_dir
>         small, since 
>         it's "used to rebuild the cache during startup".  If there
>         isn't much
>         cache, it seems like there wouldn't be much metadata in the
>         swap log.
>         
>         My entire /var/squid/cache directory is 22MB.
>         
>         > It just seems to grow unless I do a squid -k rotate. /sigh 
>         
>         That would be easy to script in a crontab, if you had to.