2009/8/25 Sagar Navalkar <sagar.navalkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I understand the fact that cache in fact helps improve speed! > > Please let me know if clearing the squid cache will help in eliminating the corrupted cache files & help to improve the proxy performance. > Squid does it automatically. > How frequently can the squid cache be cleared? And is it advisable to clear the cache frequently or otherwise to improve performance.? > If the cache_dir is very large, for example, the size of it reaches 100G or more, then clearing cache is helpful to performance IMO. I always do: /path/squid -k shutdown mv cachedir cachedir.old mkdir cachedir chown -R nobody:nobody cachedir /path/squid -z /path/squid -D rm -rf cachedir.old & HTH.
