> Hi, I've installed squid on a Sun Server (Solaris 8). Some > one in this list > told me about the configure squid.conf file using only the > 50% of the free > space in the filesystem where the cache directory was installed Untrue, cache size is specified in squid.conf and the allocated space is used accordingly. Taking into account values set for : - cache_swap_low 90 - cache_swap_high 95 Check squid.conf.default for comments and explanation of these parameters. > > For example we have a /data filesystem with 30 GB available and we > configuring the squid.conf with this parameters cache_dir > ufs /data 14000 > 32 256 (14000 is the 50% aprox. of the 30 GB and we increase the 16 > directorys to 32) this configuration are working very well, > however when > the cache directory (/data) have 14 GB the squid still up > but the users on > our network can't to browser to internet. What is the exact error , the users get in the browser ? > The reason is the > cache directory > is over limit (14 GB, the squid's configuration file has > stablisehd 14000). > > The question is how can i do to avoid delete the cache when > the size of the > filesystem is 14000, there is some way to overwrite the > chache directory? > Squid trims and maintains cache dir size(s) automatically, there is no need to intervene, taking into account the cache dir size , is not bigger then the space available on the Filesystem. If that does not happen for you, then , what version of SQUID is this ? M.
