Re: number of dirs

Florin Andrei wrote:

> Another one: what can be the consequences of overestimate the
> number of dirs? Say, what can happen if i put 256 first-level
> and 256 second-level (or 254/254, as someone said it's optimal
> for Linux) but i really don't need that much, because i have a
> small cache? In what way will be Squid affected?

Squid won't be affected at all I think. Squid is only affected if this
number is too small, and even then it is mostly a matter for the
filesystem..

What will be affected is the amount of free inodes and space in your
filesystem, and the time it takes to run squid -z.

Hmm.. on a second thought. It may have an small effect on how Squids
janitor thread performs (storeDirClean). The difference should barely be
noticeable.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker