[squid-users] Squid dies: no space left on device

Hello everyone,

I'm running Squid 2.2stable5 on Debian GNU Linux.
Recently all my disk cache has filled up to 100%,
although I have set a smaller Limit in squid.conf,
and now squid dies a few seconds after being started.

/etc/squid.conf has the entry
cache_dir /var/spool/squid2 14000 64 256

which should tell squid to expire old content if the used space
reaches 14 GB, or am I wrong here?

/proc/sys/fs/file-max is set to 16384

df shows the following output:
/dev/sdb1 17654736 16757928 0 100% /data/squid2

so it is over the Limit of 14336000 Bytes set in squid.conf.

How can I force squid to expire old content?

I would be thankful for any advice, also any hint where to look
for an answer.

Thanx in advance
Christian Winter

--------------------------------------Output of
cache.log---------------------------------------------
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Starting Squid Cache version 2.2.STABLE5 for
i386-debian-linux-gnu...
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Process ID 31189
2002/01/24 10:03:49| With 1024 file descriptors available
2002/01/24 10:03:49| helperOpenServers: Starting 32 'dnsserver' processes
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Swap maxSize 18944000 KB, estimated 1457230 objects
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Target number of buckets: 29144
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Using 32768 Store buckets, replacement runs every 2
seconds
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Max Swap size: 18944000 KB
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every
3600/3600 sec
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #0 (DIRTY)
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Rebuilding storage in Cache Dir #1 (DIRTY)
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
2002/01/24 10:03:49| Loaded Icons.
2002/01/24 10:03:50| Accepting HTTP connections on port 3128, FD 63.
2002/01/24 10:03:50| Accepting ICP messages on port 3130, FD 64.
2002/01/24 10:03:50| Pinger socket opened on FD 66
2002/01/24 10:03:50| NETDB state reloaded; 25 entries, 14 msec
2002/01/24 10:03:50| Ready to serve requests.
2002/01/24 10:03:51| 65536 Entries read so far.
2002/01/24 10:03:52| 131072 Entries read so far.
2002/01/24 10:03:52| 196608 Entries read so far.
2002/01/24 10:03:53| 262144 Entries read so far.
2002/01/24 10:03:54| 327680 Entries read so far.
2002/01/24 10:03:55| 393216 Entries read so far.
2002/01/24 10:03:56| 458752 Entries read so far.
2002/01/24 10:03:57| icmpRecv: recv: (111) Connection refused
2002/01/24 10:03:57| Closing Pinger socket on FD 66
2002/01/24 10:03:57| diskHandleWrite: FD 39: disk write error: (28) No space
left on device
FATAL: Write failure -- check your disk space and cache.log
Squid Cache (Version 2.2.STABLE5): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 6.970 seconds
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 319
Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():
        total space in arena: 47695 KB
        Ordinary blocks: 47519 KB 9985 blks
        Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks
        Holding blocks: 1472 KB 4 blks
        Free Small blocks: 0 KB
        Free Ordinary blocks: 176 KB
        Total in use: 48991 KB 103%
        Total free: 176 KB 0%
Received on Thu Jan 24 2002 - 08:27:05 MST