Re: Squid 2.0 PATCH 2 and cache dir's filling up.

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> John Sloan wrote:
> > it threw away most of the entries in the swaplog file without
> > succeeding in deleteing most of the contents of the disk.
>
> Sounds like it failed to write the index file.
>
> Repairing a lost index file is easy. Simply shut down Squid, delete the
> index file and start Squid again.
>
> As a safety measure you should always keep you cache index files on a
> separate disk. Squid will gracefully handle a full cache disks, but it
> must be able to write the index file during shutdown.
>
> ---
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Spare time Suqid hacker

Sigh.

See my comments about it being dog slow while doing this. I'm talking
about 4 hours or so where the cache response is 4-6 seconds instead of
about 0.8 seconds. This is not an acceptable degradation of performance
on a live service.

Besides - my cache index file _IS_ on a separate disk.

John
Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 03:13:19 MST