On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 16:15 +0100, Neil A. Hillard wrote: > Guillaume Vachon wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:26 -0400, Guillaume Vachon wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:51 +0100, Neil A. Hillard wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> mail reformatted to make sense (i.e. please don't top post!) > >>> > >>>>>> 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. > >>> > > >>>> 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. > >>> If you want better advice you'll need to show here how you've checked > >>> that. Have you used iostat, vmstat, etc. You may also want to post you > >>> squid.conf (stripped of comments and blank lines). > >>> > >>> Do you have multiple cache_dirs specified? > >>> > >>>> 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 > >>> Correct - you should not have to. After all, I have a dual P3-667MHz > >>> with 512Mb RAM serving over 3500 clients. Your machine is considerably > >>> more powerful. > >>> > >>> What is the machine doing when it is in this state. Is anything logged > >>> in cache.log, anything relevant in syslog? > >>> > >>> > >>> Without more information we can't really offer any advice. > >>> > >>> > >>> Neil. > >>> > >> --- > >> > >> Here is my squid.conf > > <snip> > > >>> What is the machine doing when it is in this state. Is anything logged > >>> in cache.log, anything relevant in syslog? > >> Says too much file open in the cache or something like that. > >> > >> --- > >> > >> I'm up to try anything > >> Thanks in advance! > >> > > > > To the last message some line of my config files are missing.. this is > > my total squid.conf : > > > > hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? > > acl MS > > dstdomain .windowsupdate.com .windowsupdate.microsoft.com .windows.com > > acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? > > no_cache deny QUERY > > no_cache deny MS > > cache_mem 100 MB > > OK, you may want to read: > > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.4 > > with regard to cache_mem. Try setting it back to the default and see if > you continue to have a problem. > > HTH, > > > Neil. Ok I'll try that thanks for all your information! Guillaume >
