On 03/10/2013 03:13 PM, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > I am using squid 3.1.23 and not planning on migrating to a higher version for > another few months. > squid says 8 Duplicate URLs purged > It will not clear the actual stale files form disk > so cache.log says there are 8 less files than find command says. That sounds like a Squid bug to me. I do not recall seeing code that would delay purging ufs files from disk (but I am not a ufs expert). > I fall into this situation once every few weeks and I end up purging the whole > cache or restore a back up of the disk cache. Why? Are you afraid of Squid serving those stale responses to users? That is unlikely even of Squid has a bug deleting those files from disk. > Is there any way to clear the stale files from disk instead? If this is a bug, and it still exists in recent versions, then it should be reported and fixed. Meanwhile, if those leftovers really bother you, you can add custom (or enable higher-level) debugging to figure out which stale files were not deleted and delete them manually (or even from a script). You may be able to do the same by analyzing store.log as well. Sorry, I do not have specific step-by-step instructions for doing this. Alex.
