RE: [squid-users] cache drive size question

 
>
> what is the max hard drive size squid can use?

  Probably any, as squid does not know on what a type of
drive it resides , the only component having to deal with that and
supporting the drive is the underlying OS...

>
> I've been using 16 gigs of a 120Gig drive with great success.
> But i was
> wondering if I could get better performance by utilizing the rest of
> the drive resources. Would partitioning the drive into
> multiple pieces
> at squids max size limit be the way to go?

What do you mean by 'squids max size limit' ?
 
Partioning won't
help performance a lot. Better is to use multiple spindles
to spread I/O load created by squid.
Note also that making the total size of the cache as large
as possible is probably not the best idea in the sense of
optimal use-of-squid (hit rate).
A rule of thumb is to configure the cache as about one week
of user's generated traffic.

M.

 
 
Received on Mon Jul 26 2004 - 23:36:53 MDT