Re: High load squid configuration

On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 01:09:12AM +0000, Eric J Bennett wrote:
> Yes, it's going to be a dedicated proxy server, as for the RAID issue, is it
> probably better to just get a series of standard high speed scsi disks and
> configure them as cache dirs?

Yes. RAID is non-optimal unless 100% uptime for your cache server is
critical and you don't have alternative approaches to achieve that
(e.g. front-ending it with redundant servers.)

If you're willing to settle for high uptime without 100%, then
individual disks each with its own cache dir will perform better,
because Squid can have (e.g.) 5 file writes (causing independent disk
seeks) dispatched in parallel to the 5 disks, rather than all but 1 of
the writes having to wait while the disks in the RAID system seek to
the correct positions. Does that help you visualize it?

Plus dropping the RAID saves some money.
  -- Clifton

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