Hi Jakob, Thank you for the hint. I am using Squid-2.5 stable13 on FreeBSD 6.0. Release. Yes I am using the default watermark value. I am only a bit concerned because these few days the kernel spit out message like .... squid kernel: /cache: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME or squid kernel: /cache: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE I guess it's just telling me that the space is nearly filled up. I am sorry for including the qmail discussion thread in the email, not sure how it got there, but this is what happens if you are trying to work while rushing to bed at the same time. :) Kind regards, Yance Kowara > yance schrieb: > >> >>Hi all, >> >>My cache dir is set to 5GB, and the mgr:info gives me: >> >> >> > ... nothing of interest here. > >> >>Du -h gives me >>/dev/mirror/gm0s1e 10G 4.8G 4.8G 50% /cache >> >> >> > The interesting question is, how did you set the cache replacement water > marks ? > #Default: > # cache_swap_low 90 > # cache_swap_high 95 > If you leave them at the default values, your cache should grow until it > has reached 4,75 GB in sizes, then deletion will make room until less > than 4,5 GB are in the cache. It will then oscillate between 4,75 and > 4,5 GB. With these default values, you cache_dir should never fill up > entirely. > > If you want, you can play around with the cache_replacement_policy > parameter, but this makes sense only AFTER your cache has reached the > high water mark. > > > Hope this helps. > BTW, you did not say which version of squid you are running - and : the > qmail discussion at the bottom of you message was slightly confusing to > me; I assume this has nothing to do with the current thread ? > > Yours, > Jakob Curdes > >
