Re: [squid-users] Recommended Cache Settings for cache_mem

Jeff Pang wrote:
> 2007/7/4, Michel Santos <michel@lucenet.com.br>:
>>
>> Snow Wolf disse na ultima mensagem:
>> >>From my experience,when squid has used full of cache_dir close to
>> > 20-30G,the OS would become very high-load due to the disk cache
>> > swap.So I think even you have 160G disk,you may not set the cache_dir
>> > bigger than 20G.
>> >
>>
>> ahem ... so I would need 8 x 160G disks in order getting 160G of
>> cache_dir
>> or 4 x 250 also would do it? And the rest of each disk is used by this
>> "disk cache swap" thing?
>>

I would think, one drive with several cache_dir inside would suffice ;-)
Though I think there is something screwey with a system that can't
handle disk-cache for any disk it accepts.

>
> Hmm,you can try it.I mean no more than 20G totally for use.

For the record which cache_dir filesystem (diskd, ufs, aufs, coss, null)
do you use that only gives you 20Gb ??

I have had aufs here and at one point a 30Gb cache running happily
without stressing anything (even on RAID drives at the time).

Amos
Received on Wed Jul 04 2007 - 06:25:59 MDT