Re: [squid-users] Always Direct

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:09 -0500, donovan wrote:
> question for you.
>
> cahe dir size.
>
> i have 3 x 120 gig ata drives.
>
> is that too large? should i be caching that much?
> capacity = 116.69 GB
> Available = 57.13 GB
> Used = 59.56 GB <--- all cache
>
> cache_dir ufs /Volumes/cache1/cache 65535 16 256
> cache_dir ufs /Volumes/cache_2a/cache 65535 16 256
> cache_dir ufs /Volumes/cache_2b/cache 65535 16 256

Yuck! Move to a more efficient cache_dir scheme, such as aufs or diskd.

You want to keep your used disk space below 75-80% of disk capacity for
better performance. You're doing this - good.

> *** ,-- don't ask me where i got these numbers, i set it up about
> two years ago.
>
> how can adjust this number to match my drives to maximize their
> efficiency?

You may want to check http://squidwiki.kinkie.it/SquidFaq/SquidMemory ,
especially the last chapter, to understand whether your RAM availability
matches your cache_dir settings.

        Kinkie
Received on Fri Feb 10 2006 - 10:20:26 MST