Re: [squid-users] multiple cache_dirs: sizing and placement questions

From: <adam-s@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 21:54:56 -0700

On Fri, 23 May 2003 00:58:56 +0200, Henrik wrote:

>No. As far as a Squid workload is concerned the load is on the disk
>spindles, not the controller. There is no problem to run very many
>Squid cache disks on the same controller.

>You can go down a little in cache_mem if you want more disk cache.
>256MB for a proxy cache is a bit overkill.. (but makes sense if you
>are running an accelerator or have the memory to spare).

>Yes. You should be quite well within the recommended operational
>parameters for a Squid server.

>In the 64/32 bit question the important aspect is how Squid is
>compiled, not the hardware buswidth.

Henrik, thanks a million as always. The diskpack supports many disks
so I might resize things and add a few disks, tweaking cache_mem as
you suggest.

thank you, thank you, thank you!

Adam
Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 23:01:33 MDT

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