Irfan Akber wrote:
> When the cache disk is full 90% squid starts removing the objects.
Yes, but only some. Squid tries to keep the disk usage inside
cache_swap_high and cache_swap_low.
> Does squid permanently removes the object from cache or make them stale
Permanent, to make space for new objects.
> Is it possible to stop squid from removing these objects even the harddisk cache is
>full.
Not unless you have a unlimited disk space.
> I think if it starts removing them and bring 5GB cache down to 1GB that
It doesn't. Not unless you have configured cache_swap_low to a very
small value at least.
Any messages in squid/logs/cache.log and your systems messages file? It
is possible that you are seeing some other error causing Squid to shrink
the cache.
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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
