Re: [squid-users] How do you clear the cache in Squid?

That, or shrink the cache_dir sizes. But that shouldn't happen if it is
configured correctly and you aren't running an old broken Squid (there
was a 2.3 release that had such a problem--but no one should be running
a Squid that old today).

Francisco Obispo wrote:

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> I have:
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> cache_dir diskd /cache1 8000 16 256
> cache_dir diskd /cache2 8000 16 256
> cache_dir diskd /cache3 8000 16 256
> cache_dir diskd /cache4 8000 16 256
> cache_dir diskd /cache5 8000 16 256
> cache_dir diskd /cache6 8000 16 256
> cache_dir diskd /cache7 8000 16 256
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> and
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> cache_swap_low 90
> cache_swap_high 95
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> but squid will fill up and use all the space available in about a
> month.. so, very often I have
> to delete all the cache_dir's ..
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> Should I lower the watermarks?
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> Joe Cooper wrote:
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> | Sheahan, John (PCLN-NW) wrote:
> |
> |> I was thinking that restarting the services would do it but I
> remembered it
> |> is contained in a flat file. Do I need to delete the contents of that
> file?
> |
> |
> | I suspect you have more than one file. Most operating Squid caches
> have a couple hundred thousand cache files. ;-)
> |
> | Why do you need to clear your cache? Squid maintains it for you,
> under ordinary circumstances. If you must delete it, then you'll need
> to figure out where your cache directories are--this is configured in
> squid.conf with the cache_dir directive. In an RPM installation, this
> defaults to /var/spool/squid, I think. In a tarball installation, it
> defaults to something like /usr/local/squid/cache.
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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
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