[Server-devel] Has anyone else seen squid swap.state bloat?

[James Cameron]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 09:44:14AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> Yesterday, an interesting issue happened. On an older XSCE
> >> install, the squid cache bloated over time to create a 300GB swap
> >> file and made the server unusable. I was wondering if anyone else
> >> may have come across this before?
> >
> > Yes, much the same occurred on an XSCE 5.1+ in Rwanda earlier this
> > year.  It's very serious (squid bloat filled the terabyte drive,
> > chock full) and needs investigation, thanks for circulating~
> 
> It's an issue I've seen with squid since the later half of the 1990s,
> for some reason the cache just bloats out well over the configured
> limit. I use to just toast the cache, re-init and restart squid. I'm
> not sure if there's a more elegant way to deal with it.

Same here, in the 1990s and up to about 2006 when I stopped caring
about it.

@Anish, put the cache on a separate partition, so that when it fills
the disruption is confined.

Nowadays there are other proxy servers.

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James Cameron
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