Re: [squid-users] squid with linux or freeBSD?

On Thu, 1 May 2003, fooler wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
> To: "fooler" <fooler@skyinet.net>
> Cc: "Mauro" <mauro.sanna6@tin.it>; "Ahmad Masood Shah"
> <masood@ipsec.fibre.net.pk>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid with linux or freeBSD?
>
>
> > why raid your disks at all? you'll get before performance out of having
> > seperate cache dirs on each disk than you will out of any kind of
> > stripe...
>
> because writing or reading a single data across multiple disks/stripes is
> much better than having a separate cache dirs...

sorry, it isn't, if you benchmark it, you'll find that out.

> raid 0 or stripping
> distribute the load and minimize the positioning of a disk head (seek time)
> which is the most obvious bottleneck of a disk...

yes and a raid zero stripe will do nothing for your seek time.
>
> > the data in the cache isn't important enough to save over a disk crash
> > anyway.
>
> true...
>
> fooler.
>

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