Re: squid question

[Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>]

Hi,
	Yes, you are right. squid will automatically build the swap file. Someone one the squid mailing list
	told me that it will take 2 hours to build a 8GB drive.

	Thanks for the reply.
Shao.

On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 05:13:40PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <cistron.19990714164054.A2768@shao.shao.penguinpowered.com>,
> Shao Zhang  <shao@cia.com.au> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >	Is there anyway to rebuild the index file swap.log.0 file from the actual cache??
> >
> >	We have accidentally removed the swap file, and we still have 32GB of cache... we don't want to waste all of that...
> 
> I think that squid rebuilds that file on startup if it isn't there.
> It might take a looooooonngg time though
> 
> Alternatively, squid should have the file open. If it's still running,
> a reference to that file should be somewhere in /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>,
> you might be able to copy it from there. But then you're copying a
> snapshot - by the time you restart squid to use the new file, it might
> have changed and you're using an inconsistent swap.log file. That
> might give a lot of strange problems.
> 
> Mike.
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