Re: ClearingTheCache

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 08:09 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> Noticed the update of <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ClearingTheCache
>> >.
>>
>> "To fix simple cases such as the above where the cache just needs to
>> have a portion of the total removed Altering squid.conf and
>> reconfiguring squid is sufficient. Squid will handle the changes
>> automatically and purge the cache down to size again within 10 minutes
>> of the configure."
>>
>> IME it can take *much* longer than 10 minutes, and if the box is under
>> load, doing this can cause problems.
>
> Then we should have a bug open - simple things like this should not
> cause problems.
>
> -Rob

Indeed, I thought the store garbage collection event was on a 5-10
minute loop?
Deletions should not be time-consuming as unlink is done by external
helper in near-atomic fashion (with no feedback to squid to slow the
main process, itself a bug already).

Amos

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