Re: [squid-users] Cache_dir disk problems with more info

Im sure it's 2.2S4.
I know the values are extremely big and have been talking before about
setting them to a lower value, problem is tht the machine is in production
and can only be taken down for a short period of time about once a month
(yes we have redundancy)...
Why they are set to this I don't know since it wasn't me who installed the
machine.

But the question still remains...what is eating up the space?

/Henrik J

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Colin Campbell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Henrik Johansson wrote:
>
> > Sending this again with more info (didn't have time to enter it the last
> > time)
> >
> > Having some problems with one of our proxyservers.
> > squid version is 2.2.STABLE4.
>
> It's a dumb question but I have to ask, are you sure that's not 2.3S4?
> This version has a problem with ever-growing cache.
>
> >
> > The cachedir is located on a seperate disk (23Gb) and cache_dir is:
> > cache_dir /data/cache 16000 256 2048
>
> This is totally unrelated to your problem, but these are EXTREME values
> for the cache size. At the average object size of 13kBytes, 256 x L1 and
> 2048 x L2 would serve a cache 1,703,936 MBytes (yes, 1.7 TBytes) in size.
> The default parameters (16, 256) can support a cache of 13,312 MBytes. For
> a 16GByte cache I'd simply change the line to be:
>
> cache_dir /data/cache 16000 20 256
>
> That gives 20 * 256 * 256 files each of 13kByes = 16640 Mbytes. With your
> current parameters you'll probably find only top-level directory 00 being
> used.
>
> Colin
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