On Tue, Sep 18, 2007, Nicole wrote: > Thanks for the clarification, but Eeek! Whats eek about it! > So then, I guess this raises the question: If you have plenty of disk, there > really is nothing from keeping ancient files hanging around, using up space > and enlarging your swap.state file? Squid will clean it for you! Relax. > I thought it was an either not enough space Or older than expire time would > delete objects. It'd mean more RAM used to track expired objects, and more CPU to walk the list and delete unneeded objects.. > So it seems like, I either have to manually purge old files every so often, or > set my disk space artificially to prevent too many objects based on my > servers's memory or increase my memory? Nope, you just need to: * cron a squid -k rotate once a day to make sure swap.state (and your other log files) don't grow to infinity! So many people forget this step. * Relax, and let squid handle deleting files when it wants to. It'll delete old files to make room for others as appropriate! Now, the question you should be asking is "will legitimate but infrequently used files be deleted in preference to "stale" files, and will this make my disk use suboptimal?" The answer, thankfully, is no - if you think about it, if a file is stale then: * it hasn't been accessed in a while (or its freshness would've been "updated" and it suddenly isn't stale/expired anymore!, and * if it hasn't been accessed in a while, it'll be at the tail end of the LRU or Heap anyway. Adrian -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level bandwidth-capped VPSes available in WA -
