RE: [Sheflug] Squid disk space

["David Morris" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> The problem that I have is that there isn't much disk space
> in the box(1.3GB
> in total, over two drives. Most free on a single drive is
> 161MB), and I was
> wondering if anyone had any idea as to how large the cache
> would get if 5
> people were using it.

I can't directly comment on how much space the cache will use with 5 people
accessing it. What I do know however is that you can restrict the size of
the cache on disk, and spread the cache over multiple discs.

The snippet below (sorry it's a bit long) is from squid.conf where it
describes the setup of the cache_dir tag which controls all this sort of
stuff.

I hope this helps.

#  TAG: cache_dir
#       Usage:
#
#       cache_dir Type Directory-Name Mbytes Level-1 Level2
#
#       You can specify multiple cache_dir lines to spread the
#       cache among different disk partitions.
#
#       Type specifies the kind of storage system to use.  Most
#       everyone will want to use "ufs" as the type.  If you are using
#       Async I/O (--enable async-io) on Linux or Solaris, then you may
#       want to try "asyncufs" as the type.  Async IO support may be
#       buggy, however, so beware.
#
#       'Directory' is a top-level directory where cache swap
#       files will be stored.  If you want to use an entire disk
#       for caching, then this can be the mount-point directory.
#       The directory must exist and be writable by the Squid
#       process.  Squid will NOT create this directory for you.
#
#       If no 'cache_dir' lines are specified, the following
#       default will be used: /var/squid/cache.
#
#       'Mbytes' is the amount of disk space (MB) to use under this
#       directory.  The default is 100 MB.  Change this to suit your
#       configuration.
#
#       'Level-1' is the number of first-level subdirectories which
#       will be created under the 'Directory'.  The default is 16.
#
#       'Level-2' is the number of second-level subdirectories which
#       will be created under each first-level directory.  The default
#       is 256.
#
#cache_dir ufs /var/squid/cache 100 16 256



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David Morris
IT Manager, ALLVAC Ltd, Sheffield, UK
work: david [at] allvac.co.uk
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