Re: Help! Please!

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?

D
Received on Wed Jul 14 1999 - 19:39:07 MDT