Re: [squid-users] Disk Configuration

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:38:14 +0100

On 29.11 13:50, J Thomas Hancock wrote:
> I am currently configuring a small army of squid servers to act as
> transparent caches. They are running Fedora Core 3 and Squid 2.5. We are
> using disk striping to have a fairly large and fast cache directory.

squid can benefit from using more cache disks, and the performance will be
much better than using RAID stripping.

> I have heard in older versions of Squid, that there were performance issues
> if the cache directory got to large. We currently have approximately 250GB
> of storage for our cache directory. Would you recommend having one huge
> 250GB cache directory or would you recommend having several smaller cache
> directories all on the same disk?

you should only use one cache directory on one disk.

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