Re: [squid-users] squid file system

From: Squid Support (Henrik Nordstrom) <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 21:55:11 +0200

reiserfs is currently slightly faster than the other Linux
filesystems for Squid according to Joe's benchmarking efforts.

The recommended cache_dir configuration is to have one cache_dir per
drive spindle. Squid does not benefit from having more than one
cache_dir per drive or striping, and concatenating/striping drives
only makes you more vulnerable in case of a drive failure.

Note: beware of RAID5. Using RAID5 will completely kill your cache
performance. A Squid workload is about as close as you can get to a
real-life worst case for RAID5..

Regards
Henrik Nordström

On Monday 13 May 2002 15:05, JPASTORM@esade.es wrote:
> I've heard that you get the best performance using squid in
> ReiserFS with a single directory for the cache. Am I right?
>
> Juan Pastor
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