Re: [squid-users] Linux EXT3 optimizations for Squid

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Marcus Kool <marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com>:
>> Nyamul Hassan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would build with the following in mind:
>>>
>>> 1. Better to have a separate disk for the cache stores.
>>> 2. Have a COSS store for objects less than 256k. And let AUFS handle
>>> larger objects.
>>> 3. Don't have more than 75% of your disk allocated.
>>> 4. Only one AUFS store per disk. But you can have more than one COSS.
>> Use AUFS on Linux and DISKD on BSD.
>
> Is this documented somewhere? I've been using diskd on ext4 on linux for
> years now.
>
>> 7. use noatime and nodiratime mount options
>
> Isn't noatime a superset of nodiratime?

Hmmm. maybe it is. some messages on the internet indicate that.
The man page does not indicate anything but since directories are also files
it is not unlogical that atime is a superset of nodiratime.
Received on Sun Aug 08 2010 - 15:27:40 MDT