best way to empty nginx cache

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:30:49AM +0200, J?r?me Loyet wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> what is the best and quickest way to empty the whole cache (set via
> proxy_cache_path) ?
> 
> I'm developing an small web site which allow my customers to empty
> their site cache.
> 
> I would do:
> 1- find /path/to/cache -type f -exec rm {}\;
> 2- gracefull reload nginx to clear the shared memory used to handle cache
> 
> what do you think ?

Only 1st item is enough. Reload does not clear shared memory.


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