Re: [squid-users] Config suggestion

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:58:08 +1200 (NZST), "Amos Jeffries"
<squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
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> You have 5 physical disks by the looks of it. Best usage of those is to
> split the cache_dir one per disk (sharing a disk leads to seek clashes).

OK, I will disable LVM and try it.

 
> I'm not to up on the L1/L2 efficiencies, but "64 256" or higher L1 seems
> to be better for larger dir sizes.

OK...

> For a quad or higher CPU machine, you may do well to have multiple Squid
> running (one per 2 CPUs or so). One squid doing the caching on the 300GB
> drives and one on the smaller ~100 GB drives (to get around a small bug
> where mismatched AUFS dirs cause starvation in small dir), peered
together
> with no-proxy option to share info without duplicating cache.

4 Squid's, 1 disk per/Squid proc. and a cache-peer config... Sounds good.

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> Absolutely minimal swapping of memory.

Decreased to 2GiB, the rule in faq/wiki about x% cache_dir (disk) should be
y% cache_mem seems confused to me.

-- 
Herbert