Re: [Fwd: Optimizing Squid performance]

Thanks for that.

Returning to my original question, which parameters should I tweak in order
to achieve max. performance (this is an item nobody responded, except from
the RAID 5 advice and explanation by Robert Collins).

I repeat my the configuration of my box: Compaq Proliant 1600, 1 PIII
600Mhz, 512Mb RAM, 4x9Gb SCSI-3 disks in RAID 5 (soon to be 6 disks in RAID
0+1) running Linux 2.2.14. Squid 2.4devel3-ntlm (1 20Gb cache dir). I use
SquidGuard (10 children) for filtering and a home made authenticator (10
children) for authorizing valid NTLM users.

Thanks in advance,
Athanasios Kouroussis
Unifon - T.C.P. S.A.
akouroussis@unifon.com.ar

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Athanasios Kouroussis wrote:
>
> > 1) Top or free report 3 of 512Mb of physical memory free. Only
> > 40Mb of swap space used.
>
> Quite normal regardless of the amount of memory you have as all the free
> memory will be used ass buffer/cache memory to speed up disk accesses.
>
> See "free" for a more detailed output.
>
> Squid will be quite happy as long as it fits completely in memory, and
> the machine is not swapping. So your machine should be equipedd with
> little more memory than the size of the Squid process. How big margin is
> required depends on your traffic rate.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid hacker
Received on Tue Aug 08 2000 - 18:19:27 MDT