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Ed Lafferty wrote:
I am running Squid Version 2.6.STABLE5 on CentOS 4.2.  Squid is
configured with two cache directories /asc/array1/squid/var/cache and
/asc/array2/squid/var/cache.  Logs are configured to write to the
default location /usr/local/squid/var/logs.  Here are snippets of
squid.conf:
#Default:
# cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 100 16 256
cache_dir ufs /asc/array1/squid/var/cache/ 600000 16 256
#cache_dir ufs /asc/array2/squid/var/cache/ 600000 16 256
#cache_dir ufs /asc/array3/squid/var/cache/ 600000 16 256

Unless this is a typo, you are allocating 600000MB (~586GB) to each cache dir. That would pretty well explain your problem. As an aside, I would advise using "aufs" instead of "ufs", assuming you build squid with the proper support.

  --the 600000 was 800000.  I decreased the value and ran #/squid -z to
try and resize the cache.  I did not see any change.
...
#  To log the request via syslog specify a filepath of "syslog"
access_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/access.log combined
...
#Default:
cache_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log
...
#Default:
cache_store_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/store.log
...
Squid has shut down with the following error: 2006/12/27 11:27:04| Rebuilding storage in /asc/array1/squid/var/cache/
(DIRTY)
2006/12/27 11:27:04| diskHandleWrite: FD 12: disk write error: (28) No
space left on device
FATAL: Write failure -- check your disk space and cache.log
Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE5): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.017 seconds = 0.012 user + 0.005 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0

Here is the space left on the server:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       90G   12G   74G  14% /
/dev/hda1              99M   12M   82M  13% /boot
none                 1014M     0 1014M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             101G   89G  7.4G  93% /asc/array1
/dev/sdb1             101G   96G     0 100% /asc/array2
/dev/sdc1             101G   93M   96G   1% /asc/array3

In order to get Squid working again, I have shut down /asc/array2 as a
cache drive.  However, this leaves me with 7.4GB available on the other
cache drive and I am afraid it will run out of space quickly.
So, two questions, why am I running out of space. Are there other logs going to the cache drives that I don't know about?

Question asked and answered.

Second, can I shrink
the size of the cache?  Other than taking down Squid for a few moments,
will it do anything else bad?

That's three questions so far, but who's counting. :) First set your cache dir size to something more reasonable (80000 would be fine, 70000 might be better) and start squid. It's possible that it's not going to be happy, as the cache_swap_log is stored by default in the base of the cache directory, and there is no room to write it, but it's worth a shot. If it still fails, either remove the contents of one of the sub directories (rm -f /asc/array2/squid/var/cache/00/00/* for example) and restart squid, or clear the whole partition and run "squid -z" again to rebuild the directory structure.

How bad would it be if I were to
completely wipe out the cache directories and rebuild them from scratch?

You'd loose what information you have cached. Like starting out with a new server. The only directory where this is even a remote necessity would be array2.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give. Sincerely,
  Ed Lafferty
  Mgr, Network Operations
  Bolt Inc.
  http://www.bolt.com

Chris

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