RE: High load squid configuration

Can anyone comment on this with certainty? Is raid0 a definite
performance hit/miss as opposed to multiple cache_dirs? Lets say we are
talking about a 8 drive system.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Matthew King wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Yeah.. That is how i have done it in my past experience.. From what i have
> read / experienced / heard RAID can reduce performance for a caching
> server..
>
> Cya
> Matthew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric J Bennett [mailto:Eric.Bennett@nec.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2000 12:09 PM
> To: Matthew King
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: High load squid configuration
>
>
> Matthew King 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?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Eric
>
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > As disscussed a few weeks ago on the list.. RAID is not a huge performance
> > increase for Squid.. Is the server going to be a dedicated proxy server?
> Or
> > will it be running other services aswell? That might be something to take
> > into consideration..
> >
> > Cya
> > Matthew
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric J Bennett [mailto:Eric.Bennett@nec.com.au]
> > Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2000 10:24 AM
> > To: squid-users@ircache.net
> > Subject: High load squid configuration
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm about to configure a dedicated squid proxy server for a high
> > bandwidth (155mb lan with 10mbps link to the net) high use (3000
> > students) network, what should be the primary considerations here, at
> > the moment I'm looking at a PIII - 500mhz with a SCSI Raid array and
> > 256mb ram running linux.
> >
> > Has anyone done anything similiar to this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Eric J Bennett
>

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Received on Wed Feb 23 2000 - 19:35:47 MST