Re: [squid-users] tune up

On Sat, 7 May 2005, azeem ahmad wrote:

> hi all,
> is there any commands to tune up squid after a week or month or so. mean like
> deleting old logs or kind of that things that make squid's performance better
> when applied periodically

You need to have log rotation configured (periodic call to "squid -k
rotate"). The rest is automatic.

Performance problems is almost always an configuration issue, sometimes
hardware. For start you need to make sure to use the proper cache_dir
type for your OS (aufs on Linux, diskd on FreeBSD and others) and follow
the memory usage guidelines shown in the FAQ.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 07:28:12 MDT