How much RAM is in the box and what's the size of the cache_dir? Is it
possible that your cache is filling up and the machine is swapping, as the
available RAM is insufficient to cache the swap.state metadata?
Reuben
At Wednesday 11:35 AM 22/12/1999 +0000, Ray Hillman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We're running squid on Sun Ultra 10s with 2 dedicated
>cache file systems.
>
>Every couple of months or so we find our caches
>running slowly with lots of disk activity. This is
>when the file systems reach around 70% capacity.
>The filesystems have been tuned for space optimization.
>
>The only way I can find to improve the performance
>is to ditch the cache contents by newfsing the filesystems
>and starting again with a squid -z.
>
>I don't feel that I should have to take this sort of
>action every so often. Is there something I could
>be doing in order to allow squid to perform as it
>does most of the time or is this something that other
>squid admins have to resort to once in a while?
>
>Regards
>Ray
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