Re: [squid-users] How does squid choose which cache_dir to use?

It'll choose the cache dir with the least pending disk ops, if you haven't
configured any other restriction (min/max object size.)

Look at the "store directory stats" page in the cache manager and see
what it says.

Adrian

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007, Nicole wrote:
>
> Hello
> I am testing FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT and zfs.
>
> I am using:
>
> cache_dir aufs /cache0 24000 32 128
> cache_dir aufs /squidcache1 90000 64 256
> cache_dir aufs /squidcache2 90000 64 256
> cache_dir aufs /squidcache3 90000 64 256
>
> Cache0= standard ufs/ffs filesystem slice of da0
> /squidcache1/2/3 = a whole disk 147G (da2/da2/da3) utilizing zfs. (basicly
> in JBOD)
>
> (it's new, it's cool, but how does it work with squid...)
>
> Normally, (when all using ufs/ffs) all the squidcache1/2/3 dirs start filling
> first and the cache0 dir fills slowest. However, with the 3 using zfs, cache0
> is filling much faster. Is this indicitive of the 3 cache_dirs using zfs
> are somehow slower, so its using cache0 more?
>
Received on Tue Aug 21 2007 - 00:53:15 MDT