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

[Dave <gh...@gm...>]

Yeah, I mentioned that.  Several times actually! /sigh

I've been looking to replace these boxes with a box with a raid array of
some sort, just for it's cache, something we don't care about at all.
Security here would rather not let it have any writable media though.

Thanks again for your help though!

Dave

On 9/5/06, Bruce Smith <bw...@ar...> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
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