[sorry for the late response]
On Friday 02 November 2001 09.11, Palmer J.D.F. wrote:
> 1). I have 6 18Gb discs in the machine, my initial plan was to have 1
> System, 1 for logs and 4 for cache_dir.
> Would I be better off 5 for cache_dir and putting the system & logs onto
> the same disk?
> Or any other recommendations?
Either is fine I think. But don't mix logs or swap with cache.
> 2). I have 3Gb of RAM in each of these servers, so how much cache_mem
> should I be looking at setting?
Not too much. There usually is limits in how much memory a single process can
use when approaching these RAM sizes..
> 3). As a rule of thumb in the past I have set Linux swap as twice the
> amount of ram, surely I'm not going to set 6Gb, so what amount of swap
> would you recommend, if any?
Linux-2.4 really likes to have at least the same amount of swap as ram. If
you have less you can run into really wierd situations (seems to have
improved a lot in the later Linux-2.4 releases however..).
-- MARA Systems AB Giving you basic free Squid support Priority support or Squid enhancements available on requestReceived on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 05:45:02 MST
This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Tue Dec 09 2003 - 17:04:20 MST