Hi, I'm totally puzzled as to how the LRU cache replacement policy has been implemented in Squid. Here's my situation. ............................................................ squid.conf- cache_dir aufs /data01/aufs01 100000 16 256 $ pwd /data01/aufs01/00/00 $ ll 001000FF -rw-r----- 1 squid squid 20687 Dec 20 18:00 001000FF // some webpage that Squid cached $ head 001000FF ���� ��0^�<D��,��.K��.K����������������`;http://some-urlaccept-encoding="gzip,deflate"HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:00:31 GMT Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Set-Cookie: some cookie Set-Cookie: some cookie Set-Cookie: some cookie P3P: CP="IDC DSP COR CUR ADMa DEVa TAIa PSAa PSDa CONo TELi OUR OTRi IND PHY ONL UNI FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA PRE" Set-Cookie: some cookie Set-Cookie: some cookie Set-Cookie: some cookie Path=/ ............................................................ So there is a cached page for the url: "some-url" on the disk. ............................................................ $ curl -H "User-Agent: some useragent" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" "http://some-url" Squid access.log - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [23/Dec/2009:11:03:31 -0800] "GET http://some-url HTTP/1.1" 200 19114 "-" "-" "-" "gzip,deflate" TCP_MISS/FIRST_UP_PARENT 446 $ ll 001000FF ls: 001000FF: No such file or directory ............................................................ A page that is just 3 days old encountered a cache miss, even though the cached page is physically present on the disk. Could somebody explain why this has happened? The exact same URL is requested from the command line and Squid has removed its copy of the page after the command execution. If the copy has become stale, going by the refresh_pattern rules, a TCP_REFRESH_MISS should have got logged instead of TCP_MISS. Its really weird that the copy on the disk was deleted, and a TCP_MISS was reported. Appreciate your response. TIA! CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ======================= This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.