On tis, 2008-05-06 at 06:45 -0300, Michel (M) wrote: > lets say the swap.state is corrupt for any reason I can delete it and > squid should rebuild it correctly right? Yes, but some information is lost when doing so, and it will take a very very long time if your cache is large. > so since squid does this swap.state -> swap.state.new -> swap.state thing > anyway I could change my startup script to delete any swap.state before > starting squid to make sure it is coming up clean, or am I wrong here? Partially wrong. There is information in swap.state that can not be rebuilt from the cache directory. Mainly freshness updates and access counters. The rewrite of swap.state on startup/rotate is to compact the file pruning out no longer relevant details. While running swap.state is used as a journal for the cache. If swap.state is lost Squid will attempt to rebuild the cache index from the individual files, but not all information is available in the individual files and additionally it's a very I/O intensive task as each file has to be opened and read.. Regards Henrik
