I am intending to increase the amount of disk space that Squid can use for caching.
I have noticed that if I edit /etc/squid/squid.conf and remove the # from the line
#cache_dir /var/spool/squid 100 16 256
that squid doesn't work.
By default squid uses 100MB with 16 first level directories and then 256 directories in each of those.
I was going to change it to 1000MB.
I tried uncommenting the line and changing it to 1000 and restarted squid (service squid start) gave this error:
FATAL: Unknown cache_dir type '/var/spool/squid'
Squid Cache (Version 2.3.STABLE4): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage 0.000 seconds =0.000 user + 0.000 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 192
I then tried returning the line to its default (but removing the #) and still get the error.
If I comment out the line then squid uses the defaults and its fine.
I am using essg 4.1.2.
Seems strange to me that just removing the #comment from the cache_dir line causes a problem when the config file comments says it uses the values on that line as default anyway!
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