[squid-users] [ext] Netdb. state too big

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
> * Antonino Sanacori <antonino.sanacori at unibs.it>:
> >  Hello.
> > 
> > My log/squid/netdb.state is 534MB, how can i reduce his size?
> > 
> > On my Debian 9 can I use logrotate to rotate the file?
> 
> You could disable it:
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/netdb_filename/

http://etutorials.org/Server+Administration/Squid.+The+definitive+guide/Chapter+10.+Talking+to+Other+Squids/10.5+The+Network+Measurement+Database/
talks about "When the number of stored subnets reaches netdb_high,
Squid deletes the least recently used entries until the count is less
than netdb_low."

The question being: do you actually need this?

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