Hate to respond to myself, but I wanted to add more info.. In a well duh moment I ran find and found objects going back to July. find /cache -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls {} \; If my headers from my web servers are set to expire in 2 weeks: Cache-Control: max-age=1728000 Connection: close Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:38:51 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "1155193587" Server: lighttpd Content-Length: 68424 Content-Type: image/jpeg Expires: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:38:51 GMT Last-Modified: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:03:00 GMT Client-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:38:51 GMT Client-Response-Num: 1 How did my expires make it keep files for so long and why did my new ones not start a purge? Thanks Nicole > Hello all > > I have a few squid servers that seem to have gotten a bit out of control. > > They are using up all the systems memory and starting to serve items slowly. > > As near as I can tell, it seems to just want more memory than I have to > serve > and manage all the objects in the cache. > > Internal Data Structures: > 20466526 StoreEntries > 24888 StoreEntries with MemObjects > 24870 Hot Object Cache Items > 20466434 on-disk objects > > > I have tried reducing my refresh pattern from: > refresh_pattern -i \.jpg 10080 150% 40320 ignore-reload > to: > refresh_pattern -i \.jpg 5040 100% 4320 ignore-reload > > and doing a reload. > > However, I have not noticed it expiring out old objects and freeing up disk > space like I thought it would. > > Do objects get stored based on their original refresh pattern? So even if I > change it, they won't expire until they expire based on the pattern they were > stored with? > > Is there any way to tell the age of the objects eating up my cache storage > space? Any reccomendations on how to reduce my object count besides reducing > disk space? This is for a reverse proxy cache and we have the cache > header set to expire objects in 2 weeks. I really can't believe that I have > 20Million 2 week old objects. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Nicole > > > -- > |\ __ /| (`\ > | o_o |__ ) ) > // \\ > - nmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Powered by FreeBSD - > ------------------------------------------------------ > "The term "daemons" is a Judeo-Christian pejorative. > Such processes will now be known as "spiritual guides" > - Politicaly Correct UNIX Page -- |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ - nmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - Powered by FreeBSD - ------------------------------------------------------ "The term "daemons" is a Judeo-Christian pejorative. Such processes will now be known as "spiritual guides" - Politicaly Correct UNIX Page