[Lias] squid problems

[Trevor Gunter]

Thanks Andrew, problem solved.

/var is mounted as hda7, but it was chokkers. Its an older computer with
only a 3Gb Hd. There was only 87Mb available for the cache but the default
squid.conf sets the cache as 100Mb.

How simple is it to set the cache to be at the mount point so I can use all
the available disk space. At present I've just reset the cache size to 80Mb
so I won't fill up hda7 again.

Peter, I didn't follow any directions from the St George site. Found on the
det intranet info about how squid.conf needs to be modified, but the 4 lines
they indicate didn't work. I just searched the web and got ideas. Added a
couple of extra lines to the conf and got it working fine.

Trevor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Dorrell" <andrew.dorrell at cisra.canon.com.au>
To: "Trevor Gunter" <tgunter at lisp.com.au>; "LIAS" <lias at lists.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Lias] squid problems


> Some snippets from the error log would be most helpful here.  Without
> them I can only guess but I have in the past only run into probelms with
> squid for 2 reasons:
>
> 1. disk full
> 2. cache corrupt
>
> the disk fills up because the squid log files are really big.  You can
> make some configuration mods to reduce them (see squid.conf)  Also the
> cache size you ask for is not in proactice the bound on the cache
> actually created by squid.  Run df to take a look at the available space
> on your disk partitions, delete log files and reconfigure etc.
>
> the cache gets corrupt very infrequently.  When it does you can simply
> blow it all away (with an rm -rf /var/spool/squid/*.  When your restart
> squid it will reconstruct an empty cache (or run squid -z)
>
> (I'm going to bed now though ;-) )
>
> Trevor Gunter wrote:
>
> >I'm running squid (on a rh7.2 box I think it is). For no apparent reason,
> >today, squid simply stopped running.
> >
> >The proxy server was still up and can be pinged ok but no squid. Reboot
did
> >nothing. Previously, if squid is running and I retype "squid start" , I
get
> >the message squid is already running. Typing squid -k shutdown now
confirms
> >no squid process running.
> >
> >I set the caching directories to be the standard ie /var/spool/squid/
> >
> >This happened once before about 3 months back, at that time I just redid
the
> >server and reset the squid.conf file.Took about an hour.
> >
> >Can anybody give me some ideas of what to try. Thanks in anticipation.
> >
> >Trevor
> >
> >
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