Hi Davies,
Dick Davies wrote:
> On 29/10/2007, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I created a ZFS file system like the following with /mypool/cache being
>> the partition for the Squid cache:
>>
>> 18:51:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zfs list
>> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
>> mypool 478M 31.0G 10.0M /mypool
>> mypool/cache 230M 9.78G 230M /mypool/cache
>> mypool/home226M 31.0G 226M /export/home
>>
>> Note: I only have a few days of experience on Solaris and I might have
>> made some mistakes with the above ZFS partitions!
>
> No, that looks ok. You can just 'zfs set quota= mypool/cache'
> to be bigger in the future if need be.
I will increase the quota as required in the future.
>
>> Basically, I want to know if somebody here on this list is using a ZFS
>> file system for a proxy cache and what will be it's performance? Will it
>> improve and degrade Squid's performance? Or better still, is there any
>> kind of benchmark tools for ZFS performance?
>
> filebench sounds like it'd be useful for you. It's coming in the next Nevada
> release, but since it looks like you're on Solaris 10, take a look at:
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/filebench
Thanks for the suggestion and the URL for the utility "filebench". I
will study it and if possible apply it for benchmarking.
However, I am having some problems installing filebench which I
downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebench
I unzipped the filebench-1.0.0.tar.bz2 package in the directory
filebench which contains the following:
-rw-r--r-- 1 76367webservd 216 Jun 20 2005 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 76367webservd 0 Jun 20 2005 ChangeLog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 76367webservd 227 Oct 5 13:08 COPYING
-rwxr-xr-x 1 76367webservd 227 Oct 5 13:08 COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x 7 76367webservd 512 Oct 5 12:59 filebench
-rw-r--r-- 1 76367webservd 314 Oct 5 13:18 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 76367webservd 18600 Jun 15 2005 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 76367webservd 0 Jun 20 2005 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 76367webservd 288 Oct 5 13:23 README
The INSTALL and README files both contain references to
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench
But according to the installation manual, the following 2 commands does
not seem to be working for my Solaris 10 (i386) box!
# zcat (filebench name).tar.Z |tar xvf -
# pkgadd -d .
Please bear with me here because I am only 1 week old with Solaris!
Also there does not seem to be any filebench packages in blastwave or
sunfreeware.
I think that I am missing a simple thing here. If possible, please guide
me. I will really appreciate it.
>
> Remember to 'zfs set atime=off mypool/cache' -
> there's no need for it for squid caches.
I will do that.
>
Thanking you...
--
With best regards and good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Tek Bahadur Limbu
System Administrator
(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department
Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Jawalakhel, Nepal
http://www.wlink.com.np
http://teklimbu.wordpress.com
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