RE: [squid-users] Hard Drive configuration

AFAIK performance difference will be negligable either way,
however if you put your cache on it's own partition, there is no
way that it can fill up your root partition (via possible mis-configuration)

and prevent your machine from being able to log...

Ideally, you want the cache on a different physical disk(s).

Regards

Jethro Rose
System Administrator
Emerge Technologies Pty. Ltd.
jrose@emerge.net.au

-----Original Message-----
From: laurence@gazelle.net [mailto:laurence@gazelle.net]
Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2001 7:02 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Hard Drive configuration

I'm setting up a new linux server to host a squid proxy, the server has one
6GB SCSI hard disk. I'd like to know if it would be better to create a
seperate partition for the squid cache, or just have one partition (+swap)
which holds the OS and the cache. Which of these would give the best
performance? Or is the difference negligible?

Any ideas appreciated,

TIA

Laurence J Praties
Systems Administrator
Gazelle Informatics Ltd
tel: 0871 871 0222
fax:0871 871 0223
laurence.praties@gazelle.net
Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 18:45:14 MDT