Re: [squid-users] Huge log files

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> My squid log files, access and store, are becoming bigger and bigger;
>> more than 600 megabytes each. Does it affect squid's performance? Can
>> I delete them and start over?
>
> store log is not really needed unless debugging storage, or doing fancy
> cache monitoring.
> You can configure that to 'store_log none'.
>
> For access.log you should be doing regular rotation of logs (squid -k
> rotate). It has side-effects in other areas such as cache journals,
> which might be more of a performance hit.
>
> Squid only appends to its logs, so the size does not really matter until
> they fill the whole disk space and crash something. Mine are happy up at
> 2GB/day for access.log and 40GB/day for debug cache.log.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please use Squid 2.7.STABLE4 or 3.0.STABLE9
>

  Squid add an entry in logrotate directory's to do this jobs. Do you have
cron running and logrotate installed?

Cheers!

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