RE: [squid-users] Slow Squid

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Brown [mailto:sbrown@taz.qinetiq.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:38 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Slow Squid
>
>
> Sturgis, Grant wrote:
>
> > The hardware is:
> >
> > Dell PE 1650
>
> Are you using PERC2/3 hardware RAID?

Nope, JBOD.

>
> I found on the similar machines we run here that the hardware RAID
> performance under Linux is outrageously poor. I converted all our
> machines to software raid and the performance improved from
> about 15MB/s
> write on a RAID5 to 75MB/s with s/w RAID. That's with 10k
> SCSI drives.
>
> Before the change, our Squid proxies spent an awful lot of time being
> I/O bound.
>
> Also, I split the cache into 3 cache dirs, each 8GB on a different
> physical drive. Now Squid is a very happy bunny.

Good ideas, thanks.

>
> -S
>

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Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 12:31:54 MST