Hi, Squid saves the files to var/cache in subfolders, or any other folder you configure using cache_dir.
If you shut down squid, delete the FILES in this folder and its subfolder (do not delete folders, just files), restart squid and access a cacheable file, you should see a new file added in a sub folder (as well as a swap file). The new file in one of the sub directories is the cached version of the resource. You can open it in a text editor. If the original resource was text (html, css, etc) it will be pretty easy to understand this file. If you do not see a file on disk, it is possible that the resource is not cacheable, or the configuration of your squid does not allow disk caching. Hope this helps, E -----Original Message----- From: Wilson Hernandez - MSD, S. A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:16 AM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: [squid-users] Where are the objects? I have a question regarding the storage of objects: Where is really saved to on disk? Is it in /var/log/squid3/access.log or in: /var/log/squid3/store.log? I've noticed that in the /var/log/squid3/cache swaplog there isn't any entries as stated below. How exactly are objects saved? 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for i486-pc-linux-gnu... 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Process ID 2789 2008/11/20 08:49:53| With 1024 file descriptors available 2008/11/20 08:49:53| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32794, FD 8 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Adding nameserver 200.88.127.22 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Adding nameserver 196.3.81.5 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Adding nameserver 200.88.127.23 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Adding nameserver 196.3.81.182 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Swap maxSize 10240000 KB, estimated 787692 objects 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Target number of buckets: 39384 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Using 65536 Store buckets 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Max Mem size: 102400 KB 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Max Swap size: 10240000 KB 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid3/cache (CLEAN) 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Using Least Load store dir selection 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Current Directory is / 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Loaded Icons. 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections at 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 14. 2008/11/20 08:49:53| HTCP Disabled. 2008/11/20 08:49:53| WCCP Disabled. 2008/11/20 08:49:53| Ready to serve requests. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| Done scanning /var/log/squid3/cache swaplog (0 entries) 2008/11/20 08:50:13| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 Entries scanned 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 Invalid entries. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 With invalid flags. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 Objects loaded. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 Objects expired. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 Objects cancelled. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2008/11/20 08:50:13| Took 19.7 seconds ( 0.0 objects/sec). 2008/11/20 08:50:13| Beginning Validation Procedure 2008/11/20 08:50:13| Completed Validation Procedure 2008/11/20 08:50:13| Validated 25 Entries 2008/11/20 08:50:13| store_swap_size = 0 2008/11/20 08:50:13| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects 2008/11/20 08:50:41| Preparing for shutdown after 0 requests 2008/11/20 08:50:41| Waiting 30 seconds for active connections to finish 2008/11/20 08:50:41| FD 14 Closing HTTP connection 2008/11/20 08:51:12| Shutting down... 2008/11/20 08:51:12| Closing unlinkd pipe on FD 13 2008/11/20 08:51:12| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2008/11/20 08:51:12| Finished. Wrote 0 entries. 2008/11/20 08:51:12| Took 0.0 seconds ( 0.0 entries/sec). CPU Usage: 0.036 seconds = 0.024 user + 0.012 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 0 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 2736 KB Ordinary blocks: 2715 KB 9 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 1500 KB 7 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 20 KB Total in use: 4215 KB 154% Total free: 20 KB 1% 2008/11/20 08:51:12| Squid Cache (Version 3.0.PRE5): Exiting normally. 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.PRE5 for i486-pc-linux-gnu... 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Process ID 2824 2008/11/20 08:51:18| With 1024 file descriptors available 2008/11/20 08:51:18| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32794, FD 8 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Adding nameserver 200.88.127.22 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Adding nameserver 196.3.81.5 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Adding nameserver 200.88.127.23 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Adding nameserver 196.3.81.182 from squid.conf 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 13 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Swap maxSize 10240000 KB, estimated 787692 objects 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Target number of buckets: 39384 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Using 65536 Store buckets 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Max Mem size: 102400 KB 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Max Swap size: 10240000 KB 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Rebuilding storage in /var/log/squid3/cache (CLEAN) 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Using Least Load store dir selection 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Current Directory is / 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Loaded Icons. 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections at 192.168.2.1, port 3128, FD 14. 2008/11/20 08:51:18| HTCP Disabled. 2008/11/20 08:51:18| WCCP Disabled. 2008/11/20 08:51:18| Ready to serve requests.
