On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 14:14, Martin Marji Cermak wrote: > Milind Nanal wrote: > > 1) How do I check the HIT rate of my Squid BOX. Any utility. I have tried
> I haven't tested calamaris, but it seems unsuitable for me, because my > access logs (with log_mime_hdrs on) grow to 3 GB during 5 hours, so I Wow. That certainly is a lot, but since you have log_mime_headers. That sort of explains it. Can I ask why do you need it? isn't it for problem tracking only? > > > 2) Any fine tune parameters for better performance rather than using default > > values in squid.conf ? > - diskd instead of ufs This is FreeBSD specific right? > - ipcache_size 100000 (so DNS does not slow you down) This is a nice one. Thanks > - httpd_accel_with_proxy off (you are intercepting, right?) Do you see problems running in intercept mode? I've read there are quite a number of drawbacks with this. > And one more remark. People in this list keep saing the reiserfs is the > best. I decided to use ext3, anyway. I use reiserfs on a 30GB cache. > According to the performance benchmark in the Duane Wessels book "Squid > the definitive guide", ufs with reiserfs(notail, noatime) has only 61% > Throughput of ufs with ext3fs(event without notaime option). > Does anyone have a comment to this? I have (just bought <1 1/2 week ago) and I've yet to reach that page. But yeah, you're right, based on his test methods: on Linux 2.4 with 32 threads, ext3fs is fastest. scheme FS Mount Opt throughput aufs ext3 noatime 168 ufs reiserfs noatime,notail 21.4 > Post your parameters here to the list, when your tunning is done, please. Yeah.. Please do -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 15:44:49 up 6:10, 6 users, 0.52, 0.29, 0.21
