Hello, -------- Make sure that your disk access performance, for instance, is adequate for the SQUID induced disk I/O load. For the computer that is running Squid it is a Dual core 3 ghz, there is 2 gig of ram. The disk are scsi. I don't think that it is the machine that is having the probleme. There is no probleme with the access to disk. -------- There might be solution somewhere. I mean I should not have to reset my cache. The computer is strong enough. But still it went really slow (so slow that browsing the web was imposible)and restarting squid with a new cache solved the problem. What can I do to be sure that this does not happen again Thanks in advance Guillaume On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:53 +0200, Mark Elsen wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I have a squid that has been caching for like 10 month. It now have an > > amazing size of 4.5 gig. > > What you have is determined by the cache_dir specifications > in squid.conf. The size there is taken into account , and SQUID will > trimm cache dirs automatically if that would be needed. > > > > When browsing on the web, it is now very very > > slow. I restarted squid with a clean cache. Everything was fine again. I > > was wondering if there were a way to tell squid to clean cache > > periodicaly?! So I would not have to do it myself. > > > > - The idea of a caching proxy is to have a cache, and to benefit > from that, not clean it. > I run SQUID with the same cache dir and or squid maintained content > for more then year without touching it. > And or touching it alone, if serious SYSTEM or disk problems would occur. > > Make sure that your disk access performance, for instance, is adequate > for the SQUID induced disk I/O load. > > M.
