Re: [squid-users] Sizing a pretty Large Squid Install

----- Original Message -----
From: <wojtek@3miasto.net>
To: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Sizing a pretty Large Squid Install

> >
> > Sorry, but no. You might see 70-80 from the first IDE 7200 RPM
drive.
> > 30 from the second. 15 from the third...and so on. 10k RPM SCSI
drives
> > does not scale linearly with number of drives. Many, many
benchmarks
>
> why it does not??? especially with diskd there is no reason to not do
it
> fully paralell (there is one diskd process per drive). don't know how
in
> linux, in netbsd i did random read speed test with 8kB blocks on one
drive
> and then on two drives in paralell. there was small difference - but
no
> more that 2-3%
>

Your benchmark tested the limits of the OS for multi-drive parallelism.

Squid is ! the OS.
Benchmark squid and you will see.

As to why I cannot give you a hard and fast answer as I haven't looked
into this part of squid. Others may.

Rob
Received on Thu May 10 2001 - 08:32:55 MDT