Re: [squid-users] Large Solaris (2.8) Squid Server Advice Needed

On 08.11 14:01, Vadim Pushkin wrote:
> My responses below. Thank you all for the assistance, very much
> appreciated. Is anyone interested in my posting the final squid.conf when
> this is all said and done?

> >I hope you configured squid with heap removal policies and async IO allowed
>
> I've configured squid like this:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/squid --enable-storeio=diskd,ufs --enable-i
> cmp --enable-snmp --enable-err-languages=English
> --enable-default-err-language=E
> nglish --disable-hostname-checks --enable-underscores --enable-stacktrace
>
> What am I missing, if anything?
> These?
>
> --enable-heap-replacement

--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru

> --enable-async-io[=N_THREADS] (Leave N blank?)

yes.

> I will test with your suggests using aufs. Thank you very much, though I
> did not even think of using aufs as an option. Shall I compile like this?
>
> --with-aufs-threads=N_THREADS (Leave N blank?, or do not use?)

i think you don't need to use this

> --enable-storeio=ufs,aufs

yes.

> At the moment I am having a discussion on why we should not be using
> Veritas Disk Suite, I couldn't care less if we lose this data, and the
> mirror overhead will slow things down alot, no?

if you have HW mirror, it should not slow writes much, but it would speed up
reads. it depends how much will you miss your cache if you loose it.

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