best way to empty nginx cache

[Jérôme Loyet]

2009/6/3 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> 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.

Thx igor