On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:22, Milind Nanal wrote: > My squid cache (with WCCP2) is running on FreeBSD 5.2 operating system for > an ISP. This is running fine but I want to tune it for better performance. > I have used HP DL 140 hardware with 80 GB IDE hard disk & 512 MB RAM.
Try using Either SATA or Scsi disk if you are able to. > > 1) How do I check the HIT rate of my Squid BOX. Any utility. I have tried > couple of access log analyzer but those are taking long time processing & > scanning the log files ? Calamaris is a good one, alternative is to use squid's cachemgr.cgi > 2) Any fine tune parameters for better performance rather than using default > values in squid.conf ? There are lots. depends on whether you want more speed or more bandwidth savings. use Reiserfs for the file-system w/ notail/noatime Do not use RAID. make sure your Cache vs. RAM is optimum ~10MB Ram per 1GB Cache > 3)would like to explore more on different cache replacement policies LUR, > GDSF, LFUDA which one is suitable of an ISP class SQUID box ? NOt exprimented yet. Can't comment > > Regards, > > Milind > > **************************************************************************** > ************* > NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, Because Impossible itself says - I'M POSSIBLE > **************************************************************************** > ************* -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 10:22:16 up 48 min, 5 average: 0.40, 0.74, 0.80
