On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, unixware wrote:
> that mean using multiple drive aslo improve
> performance .
Indeed.
The main bottleneck for a properly set up Squid cache is seek time. There
is generally to ways to optimize seek time
a) Buy a faster harddrive.
b) Use more than one harddrive.
For Squid two harddrives with 12ms seek time is a lot better than one
harddrive with 8ms seek time.
But all this assumes the system and your Squid is properly set up with an
async cache_dir type and the appropriate OS level tuning to allow Squid to
really make use of the hardware.
The choice of filesystems can only do so much and is not a substitute for
good hardware performance. A poor choice of filesystem can however make
the situation considerably worse.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Oct 27 2003 - 17:06:45 MST
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