Squid cache_log so big

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Hello,
I want rotate my cache_log file (in /var/log/squid/…)
i want rotate when size is 5G and i put in a crontab hourly

i create a conf file who name is “squid_cache” in /etc/logrotate.d/squid_cache

/var/log/squid/cache.log {
    rotate 2
    size 5G
    compress
    notifempty
    missingok
    nocreate
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
      # Asks squid to reopen its logs. (logfile_rotate 0 is set in squid.conf)
      # errors redirected to make it silent if squid is not running
      /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate 2>/dev/null
      # Wait a little to allow Squid to catch up before the logs is compressed
      sleep 1
    endscript
}

any idea please ?

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Does that script give you problems?

At first glance, it looks fine to me, although you may want to check out squid : logfile_rotate configuration directive . Some of the rotation functionality is handled by Squid itself.