How do I check my Cache and Hard Disk Space is full

[nearones]

Dear All,
As an Squid Proxy Sever, how can  I check my Cache size and Hard Disk Space is full. Right now I am using 50 GB HDD and 1GB RAM in Virtual Xeon Server, how much capacity of space will require. I am using PFsense 2.0. So that i will start clearing cache regularly. And how would I know that how much SWAP space is been assigned in my server. I had attached my dashboard, which shows SWAP space is used very low, How can i make use of it

[marcelloc]

Using swap space will slow down your server.

Why do you want it?

[nearones]

@marcelloc:

Using swap space will slow down your server.

Why do you want it?

Ok, Thanks for ur update giving guidence about SWAP space, but I also wanted to know how can I check my Cache and Hard Disk Space is it full. Right now I am using only 50 GB HDD and with 1GB RAM in Virtual Xeon Server, how much capacity of space should i alot. I am using PFsense 2.0. and how frequent should i clear cache.

Thanks again.

[marcelloc]

50g is fine. Squid handles with cache age, you do not need to clean it.

[steviep]

You can select option 8(shell) from the console or SSH into pfsense and run:

df -h
(That will show you the hard drive size and how much is used/free)

Or to answer your question, from the shell, navigate to the cache directory. cd /var/squid/cache/ and type du -h

It will then show you how much cache you have in MB or GB.

[nearones]

@steviep:

You can select option 8(shell) from the console or SSH into pfsense and run:

df -h
(That will show you the hard drive size and how much is used/free)

Or to answer your question, from the shell, navigate to the cache directory. cd /var/squid/cache/ and type du -h

It will then show you how much cache you have in MB or GB.

Thanks u very much u r genius. Can u provide me more shell commands as i not that good in linux. Also can i tell me how do i clear cache log from shell?

Thanks again

[marcelloc]

@nearones:

Thanks u very much u r genius. Can u provide me more shell commands as i not that good in linux. Also can i tell me how do i clear cache log from shell?

rm -rf /var/squi/cache/*

The command to rebuild squid cache after removing old cache files:

squid -z

Aftert it finishes, restart squid.