Re: [squid-users] squid performances

Thank you Tay and Adam.

Valton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Aube" <aaube@firstindependent.net>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: [squid-users] squid performances

> > Can somebody tell me please, I want to know, how many requests
> > per sec (req/sec) can handle normally a box with these technical
> > charachteristics:
>
> I can give you some tuning suggestions, but not a specific number.
>
> > RAM - 900 MByte
> > HDD - 16 GByte
> > Swap Partition - 1G
> > cache_dir diskd /var/cache/squid/ 15360 16 256 Q1=72 Q2=64
>
> As has already been suggested, make your cache 80% of the drive
> size. Also, switch to aufs, since you're on Linux and using a single
> drive - you'll get better performance.
>
> You'll also want to up the L1 setting (16). Per the archive, the
> default is good up to a cache of 6.5 GB. I'd recommend setting the L1
> value to 40 or 48.
>
> Beyond that, check to see if your Squid process becomes I/O bound (use
> iostat/vmstat/procinfo). If so, one thing you can try is reducing the
> cache size and upping the cache_mem setting. This may reduce disk usage,
> at a cost of cache hits.
>
> Adam
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Received on Tue Aug 05 2003 - 08:58:06 MDT