Re: Re: [squid-users] an advice about cache.

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 09:11:31 +0200

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 08.08, Mauro Sanna wrote:
> I'm, using mrtg for statistics.
> I have a max rate of 1136.0 req/min and an average of 500 req/min.
> I have 3 scsi disks in raid 5 hardware...a total of 70Gb of disk
> space for system and squid cache.

Looks good. Maybe a little overkill.

If you find that your disk performance starts to become a bottleneck
(might happen at about 3-4 times this amount of traffic) then adding
a fourth drive and reconfigure the cache into two RAID1 sets is
recommended for increased disk random write performance.

Regards
Henrik

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