Re: [squid-users] 60% clarification

If you are referring to disk space utilization, then it is of the
filesystem size. When the filesystem starts to get full, new files
starts to get fragmented and the performance degrades.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
M. Yu wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Just wanted to clarify something.  I've read in almost every performance doc
> the admonition that on Unix/Linux, performance drops once disk utilization
> goes past 60%.  A co-worker and I are arguing over what this means:
> 
> 1. 60% of the formatted partition
> 
> OR
> 
> 2. 60% of the entire disk whether formatted or not
> 
> I go for 1 since I'm thinking if the partition isn't formatted, it isn't
> counted.  My co-worker says the percentage refers to 2 since performance is
> dependent on the disk itself and not just on the formatted partition.  Am I
> correct or is he?
> 
> M. Yu