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

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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.