Lucia Di Occhi wrote: > Is it really worth using ReiserFS? I mean do you really get all that > performance improvement over ext3?
Yes - ReiserFS is much better than ext3 at handling large numbers of small files, which is a similar usage pattern to a Squid cache_dir. >>Do not use RAID. > > Do you mean SOFTWARE RAID? Hardware striping will definately improve > performance. Not any more than using multiple cache_dirs, one per disk. One added drawback to RAID-0 is that a loss of one disk in the stripe loses the data in the entire stripe, whereas with multiple cache_dirs you only lose that one cache_dir's data. >>make sure your Cache vs. RAM is optimum >>~10MB Ram per 1GB Cache > > Where does this formula come from? >From the FAQ: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-8.html#ss8.11 Adam