What filesystem type is in use for the device the cache_dir is stored on? Upstream have known issues with ZFS and XFS where the underlying FS uses different amounts of storage space for files than gets reported to Squid. This usually results in smaller on-disk than Squid is aware, but it could as easily result in much larger sizes.
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