Hi, I had a problem recently where my partition with the cache on it was filling over and over again after about 7 mins, no matter whether anyone was using the system or not. After looking into this a bit, I decided to clean out the cache by clearing out the swap.state file as described in the faqs. It's size was about 280Mb and there was also a swap.state.new file that was about 40Mb. I also noticed that the timestamp on the swap.state file was about a week old, and the .new one was from today. From what I've read and guessed, I think my problem was that squid was trying to rebuild the swap.state file by creating a swap.state.new file and this was running the partiton out of space, and then doing the rebuild again after failing (clearing the space, and rebuilding and running out of space over and over). So I've now cleared the cache (or at least the swap.state) and things have settled down, but I'm wondering if this is the likely explaination to my trouble.
The other question regarding this that I have is that I've now reduced the size that the cache can take up so that this won't become a problem again, but the actual space that the cache takes up is more than I have told it should be the max because the files from the cache before I told it to shrink are still around. How do I go about cleaning up the old cache files so that I gain the space back? It's not an issue now but if I get into the situation of having a large swap.state file that then needs rebuilding, I still won't have the room on the partition for this to work unless the cache files have shrunk to the max size I've set. Hope that makes some sense, any help most apreciated. cheers, noel
