Re: [squid-users] Harddisk suspend

Squid is periodically scanning the cache directories to perform
garbage collection. This scanning runs in the background and is timed
such that a full scan of the cache takes about 24 hours.

This garbage collection cannot be disabled without changing the code.
Look for eventAdd("storeDirClean"... in the sources
(src/fs/*/store_dir*.c). It should be safe to turn this off if you
are annoyed by it. (to turn off, simply delete the eventAdd() line)

Regards
Henrik Nordstr�m
Squid Developer

On Thursday 14 February 2002 22.35, Andre Alexander Bell wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've searched the web, FAQ, Documentation of squid and thsi
> mailinglist, but I haven't found a way to solve my problem.
> My Router is running Debian/testing and I do use squid as proxy. I
> don't turn of the computer, but I want to make it as silent as
> possible, so I've used hdparm to suspend my IDE Harddisk after 5
> minutes of inactivity. After installing squid my computer is
> accessing the harddisk every 15 seconds while no one is using
> squid.
> If I stop squid harddisk access stops too...
> Why is squid periodically accessing the harddisk? How can I stop
> squid to do this? Can anyone give me a hint how to solve this?
>
> ciao
>
> Andre

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