On Tuesday 06 August 2013 01:27:02 Amos Jeffries wrote: > My earlier description is what happens on shutdown. If you have not set > shutdown_timeout yourself then the default of 30 seconds will be when > the timeout stages happen that is all. The process *will* happen > regardless of when the timeout occurs. Before the timeout Squid is > simply waiting for existing clients to finish and clearing up as much > disk I/O as possible. > It is good to hear that the cache garbage is a rare event, that means > your Squid is getting enough cycles on shutdown to finish the disk I/O > erase events at least. > > I expect that the swap.state claiming more files than exist is something > to do with your OS caching disk I/O. > > Amos Would manually setting the shutdown_timeout value to over 30 seconds (let's say 180 seconds) and typing 'sync' before shutting down squid to restart the server help with the OS caching disk i/o issue? I am expecting the 3.10.5 kernel update anytime now so it would be a good time to test things.