Re: Help! Please!

Dancer,

> Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
> >
> > Dancer,
> >
> > > > We have cache swap log files in our /squid directory.
> > > >
> > > > I accidently deleted them today. (Much to the dismay of the boss..)
> > > >
> > > > So, i'm guessing that I now have 32 gigs of cache with no reference
to
> > it?
> > > > Is that correct?
> > > >
> > > > Is there anything I can do?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Marc-Adrian Napoli
> > > > Connect Infobahn Australia
> > > > +61 2 92811750
> > > >
> > > > PS. I have a /squid/swap.log.00.new file that is growing slowly..
that
> > > > wouldn't happen to be the database rebuilding itself would it?
> > >
> > > If you are using squid 2.x then yes, it's rebuilding its index. If you
> > > were using squid 1.1, the best thing would be to wipe and rebuild your
> > > cache-directories and start empty.
> >
> > Thankyou for the clarification.
> >
> > What I've also noticed now.. is that previously we had 4 8gig drives
full of
> > cache... (Four SCSI mounted drives acting as /cache1, /cache2...) but
now,
> > the 4 gigs have come down to about 32% full.
> >
> > I'm guessing, that as the index is rebuilding, it somehow decreases the
> > amount in your cache?
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Some URLs may be discarded during the reindexing process. I wonder if
> the space was taken up by the index itself?

No.. the index files (cache.swap.log.00 - cache.swap.log.03) are on a IDE
partition where all the squid binaries are kept.

The four mounted SCSI drives hold nothing but cache...

The only thing that makes sense is that the rebuilding of the cache is not
total, and doesn't save you everything!

Regards,

Marc-Adrian Napoli
Connect Infobahn Australia
+61 2 92811750
Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 20:01:59 MDT