I was trying to test whether Squid 3.1 forwards the same request to the server multiple times when it does not have a local copy of the content. This test requires manually clear the cache. Btw, the results shows that Squid did forward the same request to the server multiple times...which is not very good... On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011 14:33:48 -0500, Henry Yuan wrote: >> >> It seems that the cache is not cleared when squid is restarted. And >> squid -z doesn't seem to clear the cache either. Would someone please >> provide some suggestion? >> >> Thanks, >> Henry > > > Others have already pointed out a few way to do it. Here are the formal > details: > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ClearingTheCache > > Cache is there to persist data locally for quick use until it is no longer > valid. > Which brings up the question of *why* you need to manually erase it all? > What are you dealing with that so badly corrupts/violates HTTP that it does > not auto-replace? > > Amos > >
