[squid-users] reiserfs, 2,4 kernel, and squid

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Where I work, there is an opportunity to use Linux as a server where all are
nt/w2k servers, mostly due to licensing issues. The administrator, an msce,
has approached me for some help in getting squid up and running to replace ms
isa server.

We have been running squid-2.3STABLE on a redhat 7.1 distro and an ext2
filesystem on a very old hardware, pentium mmx and even an ISA ne2000 card,
as a proof-of-concept. The permanent setup will use a much better hardware,
possibly a pentium II, PCI network card, and 128Mb of memory or more.

To cut the story short, I would like to maximise the performance of the box,
using a 2.4 kernel and using reiserfs instead of ext2, and using
squid-2.4STABLE to make use of diskd.

The question now is:

        Which 2.4 kernel is best reiserfs + squid?

2.4.0 to 2.4.3 seems to be out of the question, based on this:

* http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reiserfs+2.4.3+squid
* http://www.namesys.com/download.html ( under DANGER )

It seems that the best option is either:

* 2.4.5 + reisefs umount patch
* 2.4.7
* 2.4.4
* 2.4.10-pre4

Can anyone out there using squid-2.4STABLE give feedback on what 2.4 kernel (
plus any patches ) are you using ...and for how long??

Worst case, I can go back to a 2.2 kernel ... but we wont have the zero-copy
feature of 2.4.
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Received on Sat Sep 22 2001 - 00:59:46 MDT