RE: [SQU] Assistance on cache sie etc..

Actually, *do* use RAID 5, but only for the system volumes.

Get 2 or 3 9G drives is you can, and mirror or raid 5 them for your system
volume.

Then, set up each 36G drive as a separate volume and add cachedir entries in
squid.conf for each one.

FWIW though, I have mine set up as a raid 5 with a 128M writeback cache on
the controller (gotta love big UPS's), and performance is just spiffy.
That's handling a fairly steady 12MB/s stream.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:15 AM
To: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: [SQU] Assistance on cache sie etc..

If you're running Linux, check here:

http://www.swelltech.com/pengies/joe/squidtuneup/t1.html

And don't use RAID. At all. Ever. Squid is the worst possible
workload for a RAID device. One could not invent a worse workload for a
striped RAID.

Ben Mckellar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am configuring a system with raid 5 and 3x36gig drives.
>
> I wish to make the cache about 60gig. What will this effect? What other
> things do i have to look at which will assist in performance, and any
other
> settings that i should know in regards to having a large cache.
>
> cheers
>
> Ben
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