Re: [squid-users] suggestions for high-end dual-CPU config on Linux? (+tuning of current conf)

From: Greg Sheard <greg@dont-contact.us>
Date: 23 Oct 2002 10:33:28 +0100

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 04:23, Colin Campbell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe the general consensus to be:
>
> - don't do RAID, let squid load balance across the disks
> - get FAST disks 10,000RPM or better
> - lots of RAM
> - dual CPU probably won't get you anything as squid is single-threaded
> - reiserfs is better

Also, you should probably look at using diskd for your cache
directories; this is possibly (I may be wrong) the only way to use your
second processor for anything significant.

Greg Sheard
Technical Director
ECSC Ltd.
www.ecsc.co.uk

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