i have increased value from cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 100 16 256 to cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 1000 16 256 i didn't see any changes other then cache dir got 10 times bigger, among other reasons one of the main reason was to save traffic, most of our users go to 1 website, after we start using squid i didnt see any traffic saving, its same as it was... i then tried to 2000 and 3000, same thing... also whenever i have a need to restart squid does this "Store rebuilding" which takes forever, is there a way to skip this? or is this a nessesery step? and on the top of all this i get this statistics 2007/08/02 12:18:04| Done reading /usr/local/squid/var/cache swaplog (31497889 entries) 2007/08/02 12:18:04| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 15742193 Entries scanned 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 0 Invalid entries. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 0 With invalid flags. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 12982474 Objects loaded. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 0 Objects expired. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 12977266 Objects cancelled. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 1284480 Duplicate URLs purged. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 1475239 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| Took 785.7 seconds (16523.7 objects/sec). 2007/08/02 12:18:04| Beginning Validation Procedure 2007/08/02 12:18:05| Completed Validation Procedure 2007/08/02 12:18:05| Validated 5208 Entries 2007/08/02 12:18:05| store_swap_size = 119566k 2007/08/02 12:18:09| storeLateRelease: released 711 objects 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 12982474 Objects loaded. 2007/08/02 12:18:04| 12977266 Objects cancelled. that part i really dont get it... it loaded X amount of object and nearly 99% gets canceled... what am I missing? thanks in advance -- http://alexus.org/