Hi, I am running squid 3.2 with an average of 50k req/min. Total received bandwidth is around 200mbit/s. I have problem when my aufs cache_dirs reaches size above 600GB. Traffic starts dropping and going up again , happening every 20~30 minutes. I have more that enough RAM in the system (125GB DDR3 !) , All disks are SAS 15k rpm, one of them is and SSD 450GB. So hardware should not cause any problem and I should easily spawn multiple squid workers any time. So what could cause such problems ? Thank you. ==================================================================================== include /etc/squid3/refresh.conf cache_mem 20 GB acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow localhost manager http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access allow all coredump_dir /usr/local/squid/var/cache/squid # SNONO-SYSTEMS CONFIGURATION http_port 3128 http_port 3129 intercept snmp_port 3401 snmp_access allow localhost qos_flows tos qos_flows local-hit=0x30 maximum_object_size_in_memory 512 KB memory_cache_mode always memory_replacement_policy heap GDSF cache_replacement_policy heap LFUDA store_dir_select_algorithm least-load max_open_disk_fds 0 maximum_object_size 200 MB cache_swap_high 98 cache_swap_low 97 # access_log stdio:/var/log/squid3/access.log access_log none cache_log /var/log/squid3/cache.log cache_store_log stdio:/var/log/squid3/store.log logfile_rotate 1 minimum_expiry_time 60 seconds request_header_max_size 64 KB reply_header_max_size 64 KB request_body_max_size 0 KB client_request_buffer_max_size 128 KB cache_effective_user proxy cache_effective_group proxy visible_hostname snono-systems fqdncache_size 8096 pipeline_prefetch on max_filedescriptors 50000 workers 2 cache_dir aufs /mnt/ssd/cache/store1 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/ssd/cache/store2 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/ssd/cache/store3 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/ssd/cache/store4 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/ssd/cache/store5 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/ssd/cache/store6 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/ssd/cache/store7 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store1 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store2 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store3 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store4 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store5 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store6 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store7 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store8 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store9 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store10 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store11 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas1/cache/store12 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store1 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store2 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store3 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store4 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store5 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store6 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store7 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store8 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store9 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store10 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store11 50000 32 512 cache_dir aufs /mnt/sas2/cache/store12 50000 32 512 =========================================================== and my refresh patterns are : #general refresh_pattern \.(jp(e?g|e|2)|tiff?|bmp|gif|png) 12560 99% 30240 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store override-expire override-lastmod ignore-private refresh_pattern \.(z(ip|[0-9]{2})|r(ar|[0-9]{2})|jar|bz2|gz|tar|rpm|vpu) 12560 99% 30240 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store override-expire override-lastmod ignore-private refresh_pattern \.(mp3|wav|og(g|a)|flac|midi?|rm|aac|wma|mka|ape) 12560 99% 30240 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store override-expire override-lastmod ignore-private refresh_pattern \.(exe|msi|dmg|bin|xpi|iso|mar|psf|cab|ipk|ipa|apk) 12560 99% 30240 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store override-expire override-lastmod ignore-private refresh_pattern \.(mpeg|ra?m|avi|mp(g|e|4)|mov|divx|asf|wmv|m\dv|rv|vob|asx|ogm|flv|3gp|on2) 12560 99% 30240 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store override-expire override-lastmod ignore-private refresh_pattern fbcdn 12560 99% 30240 ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store override-expire override-lastmod ignore-private refresh_pattern \.(php|jsp|cgi|asx|html|htm) 12560 100% 30240 reload-into-ims ignore-no-cache refresh_pattern -i \.adobe\.com 161280 500% 525948 override-expire ignore-reload #specific sites refresh_pattern \.(ico|video-stats) 12560 100% 30240 override-expire ignore-reload ignore-no-cache ignore-private ignore-auth override-lastmod refresh_pattern ytimg\.com.*\.(jpg|png) 12560 100% 30240 override-expire ignore-reload refresh_pattern ((facebook.com)|(85.131.151.39)).*\.(png|gif) 12560 100% 30240 override-expire ignore-reload ignore-no-cache ignore-private refresh_pattern photobucket.*\.(jp(e?g|e|2)|tiff?|bmp|gif|png) 12560 100% 30240 override-expire ignore-reload refresh_pattern .fbcdn.net.*\.(jpg|gif|png) 12560 100% 30240 ignore-no-cache override-expire ignore-reload refresh_pattern ^http:\/\/images|pics|thumbs[0-9]\. 12560 100% 30240 ignore-no-cache ignore-reload override-expire refresh_pattern mediafire.com\/images.*\.(jp(e?g|e|2)|tiff?|bmp|gif|png) 12560 100% 30240 reload-into-ims override-expire ignore-private refresh_pattern . 1440 100% 2250 reload-into-ims