RE: [squid-users] How can I clean out old objects - refresh patterns and really old items

Hate to respond to myself, but I wanted to add more info..

In a well duh moment I ran find and found objects going back to July.
  find /cache -type f -mtime +30 -exec ls {} \;

 If my headers from my web servers are set to expire in 2 weeks:
Cache-Control: max-age=1728000
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:38:51 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "1155193587"
Server: lighttpd
Content-Length: 68424
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Expires: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:38:51 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:03:00 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:38:51 GMT
Client-Response-Num: 1

How did my expires make it keep files for so long and why did my new ones not
start a purge?

Thanks

  Nicole

> Hello all
>
> I have a few squid servers that seem to have gotten a bit out of control.
>
> They are using up all the systems memory and starting to serve items slowly.
>
> As near as I can tell, it seems to just want more memory than I have to
> serve
> and manage all the objects in the cache.
>
> Internal Data Structures:
> 20466526 StoreEntries
> 24888 StoreEntries with MemObjects
> 24870 Hot Object Cache Items
> 20466434 on-disk objects
>
>
> I have tried reducing my refresh pattern from:
> refresh_pattern -i \.jpg 10080 150% 40320 ignore-reload
> to:
> refresh_pattern -i \.jpg 5040 100% 4320 ignore-reload
>
> and doing a reload.
>
> However, I have not noticed it expiring out old objects and freeing up disk
> space like I thought it would.
>
> Do objects get stored based on their original refresh pattern? So even if I
> change it, they won't expire until they expire based on the pattern they were
> stored with?
>
> Is there any way to tell the age of the objects eating up my cache storage
> space? Any reccomendations on how to reduce my object count besides reducing
> disk space? This is for a reverse proxy cache and we have the cache
> header set to expire objects in 2 weeks. I really can't believe that I have
> 20Million 2 week old objects.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Nicole
>
>
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