Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

What if the squid cache is stored on the "/" partition?
Wouldn't that be a hideous mistake to set "/" to 'noatime' ?

Tim Rainier
Information Services, Kalsec, INC
trainier@kalsec.com

Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> wrote on 10/11/2005 10:07:21 AM:

> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 trainier@kalsec.com wrote:
>
> > This is more of a filesystem question, then it is an operating
> > system/distro question.
> > Based on my research, the benchmarks on the web claim ReiserFS to
provide
> > up to 15-20% faster results.
> >
> > I've not had any time to do any benchmarking. My cache is currently
> > running on an ext3 partition running
> > under SLES8 SP3
>
> Regardless of which filesystem you select the most important tuning
aspect
> for filesystem performance for Squid (after selection of hardware) is
the
> noatime mount option.
>
> A more complete list, in priority order:
>
> 1. Amount of memory available
>
> 2. Number of harddrives used for cache
>
> 3. noatime mount option
>
> 4. type of filesystem (except for a few really bad choices).
>
>
> On systems with syncronous directory updates (Solaris, some BSD
versions)
>
> 1.5 Mount option to enable asyncronous directory updates, or
preferably
> a filesystem meta journal on a separate device taking the heat of
> directory updates.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Tue Oct 11 2005 - 12:30:41 MDT