[squid-users] Re: Cache has stopped increasing

A. Sajjad Zaidi wrote:

> For this new installation, I got rid of all the old drives and added
> two brand new 72GB drives (Seagate, UW SCSI). I created two cache
> partitions of 48GB each (with identical cylinder values) and for each
> drive, set 'cache_dir' to 39000 and filesystem to aufs.

> Once the cache filled up, I was expecting to find out if the same
> hardware issues appeared, but it seems to have stopped growing at about
> 70200MB (~68GB).

By default, Squid tries to maintain the cache at about 90% of its full
capacity. See the cache_swap_low and cache_swap_high for more details.

Adam
Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 19:38:09 MDT