On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:52, Lucia Di Occhi wrote: > I am trying to fine tune (for speed) as well. > > >There are lots. depends on whether you want more speed or more bandwidth > >savings. > > > >use Reiserfs for the file-system w/ notail/noatime > > Is it really worth using ReiserFS? I mean do you really get all that > performance improvement over ext3?
I'm starting to doubt what I've read. I guess it depends then. Crawling the net, I seen/heard references to use reiserfs with notail/noatime options instead of ext3. but Duane Wessels's book "Squid:The Definitive Guide" has benchmarks that show better performance on ext3. (Refer to my reply to Martin Marji Cermak) > > >Do not use RAID. > > Do you mean SOFTWARE RAID? Hardware striping will definately improve > performance. Frankly I'm not sure. Most ppl on the list does not encourage using RAID. I only run the cache on 1 SATA disk. > > >make sure your Cache vs. RAM is optimum > >~10MB Ram per 1GB Cache > > Where does this formula come from? there is all kind of cache, there is an > IP cache in RAM, there is a RAM object cache, are they taken in account in > this formula? This is as per-written on the Squid's FAQ. (IIRC) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 15:53:04 up 6:19, 6 users, 0.17, 0.23, 0.20
