On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Matthew Flanagan wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up a new cache with 24GB (6 x 4GB disks). The
> cache host is a Sun Sparc20 with 256MB RAM, 2MB NVRAM and is running
> Solaris 2.5. I was wondering what would be the best way to configure this
> cache for optimum performance. Should I just put multiple cache_dir lines
> in squid.conf?
> Or should I use something like Sun's Online DiskSuite to concatenate the
> disks into one big disk?
Our two cache servers are running with Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 and using
DiskSuite to stripe 4x2Gb discs into a single partition for the /squid/cache
directory. We're using striping, rather than multiple directories,
because experience has shown it to noticeably increase performance in
other similar applications. So far it seems to work very well.
I would recommend going from 2.5 to 2.5.1 though, since we've had a number
of problems with the 2.5 machine. [Most notably the mutation of ".."
directories to ",."!].
> Matthew Flanagan mpf@uts.edu.au
> Network Administrator - Information Technology Division
> University of Technology, Sydney.
> Voice: +61 2 9514 2141 Fax: +61 2 9514 1994
John Sloan
Systems Administrator
UUNET PIPEX
Received on Mon Feb 10 1997 - 05:21:19 MST
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