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Option Name: | store_dir_select_algorithm |
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Default Value: | store_dir_select_algorithm least-load |
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How Squid selects which cache_dir to use when the response object will fit into more than one. Regardless of which algorithm is used the cache_dir min-size and max-size parameters are obeyed. As such they can affect the selection algorithm by limiting the set of considered cache_dir. Algorithms: least-load This algorithm is suited to caches with similar cache_dir sizes and disk speeds. The disk with the least I/O pending is selected. When there are multiple disks with the same I/O load ranking the cache_dir with most available capacity is selected. When a mix of cache_dir sizes are configured the faster disks have a naturally lower I/O loading and larger disks have more capacity. So space used to store objects and data throughput may be very unbalanced towards larger disks. round-robin This algorithm is suited to caches with unequal cache_dir disk sizes. Each cache_dir is selected in a rotation. The next suitable cache_dir is used. Available cache_dir capacity is only considered in relation to whether the object will fit and meets the min-size and max-size parameters. Disk I/O loading is only considered to prevent overload on slow disks. This algorithm does not spread objects by size, so any I/O loading per-disk may appear very unbalanced and volatile. If several cache_dirs use similar min-size, max-size, or other limits to to reject certain responses, then do not group such cache_dir lines together, to avoid round-robin selection bias towards the first cache_dir after the group. Instead, interleave cache_dir lines from different groups. For example: store_dir_select_algorithm round-robin cache_dir rock /hdd1 ... min-size=100000 cache_dir rock /ssd1 ... max-size=99999 cache_dir rock /hdd2 ... min-size=100000 cache_dir rock /ssd2 ... max-size=99999 cache_dir rock /hdd3 ... min-size=100000 cache_dir rock /ssd3 ... max-size=99999 |
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