Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-11 Thread Anish Mangal
I would say given the severity of this issue (of making the server *unusable* with regular use), we should have atleast some fix, or to disable squid (which it is by default?) while better/practical approaches are discussed. Also, we do have monit. Maybe there is a way to get it to monitor squid c

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-10 Thread James Cameron
You don't say why a separate partition is impractical. The Squid intent from antiquity was that the filesystem be separate, which in those days was only practical and performant with separate partition or disk, with a filesystem tuned for many small files. To use a separate filesystem yet avoid s

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-10 Thread Tim Moody
I don't think it is practical to have a separate partition and while http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringSquid#What_.27.27cache_dir.27.27_size_should_I_use.3F talks about a separate partition, it and other docs make it clear that the entire partition should not and need not be used

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-10 Thread Tim Moody
I don't think it is practical to have a separate partition and while http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringSquid#What_.27.27cache_dir.27.27_size_should_I_use.3F talks about a separate partition, it and other docs make it clear that the entire partition should not and need not be used

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-10 Thread Anish Mangal
I think this is serious enough to warrant atleast a doc note to have the squid cache in a different partition as it makes the machine completely unusable otherwise. I don't think it is maybe the best idea to have it in library (but rather a separate partition). Or, as you say, a cron job - but in

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

2016-05-05 Thread Tim Moody
This happened in Rwanda, but the settings said 20M. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Anish Mangal Date: 5/5/16 9:20 PM (GMT-08:00) To: xsce-devel , server-devel Subject: [XSCE] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat? Yesterday, an in