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

Very cool! Thanx!

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

"Chris Robertson" <crobertson@gci.com> wrote on 10/11/2005 06:09:53 PM:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trainier@kalsec.com [mailto:trainier@kalsec.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:20 PM
> > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?
> >
> >
> > First off, there's no possible way my cache would "fill" the '/'
> > partition. There's a cache size directive in squid that's
> > designed to
> > limit the amount of disk space usage.
> > Not to mention the fact that I have a utility script that
> > runs every 15
> > minutes, which pages me if partitions are >= to 90% their
> > capacity. I
> > mean, honestly, who would run a 146GB cache?
> >
> > Second off, it's a performance thing. The fact is, the box
> > and the web
> > run quite fine. This was a test server that was thrown into
> > production
> > because it works.
> > My plans to upgrade the device are set, I'm just trying to
> > find the time
> > to do them. :-)
> >
> > Thirdly, can someone PLEASE answer my question about setting "/" to
> > 'noatime', as opposed to avoiding it by telling me how and
> > why what I'm
> > doing
> > is stupid?
> >
> > Once again, are there pitfalls to having '/' set to 'noatime'?
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Tim Rainier
> > Information Services, Kalsec, INC
> > trainier@kalsec.com
> >
> >
>
> Simple solutions: don't set noatime in fstab. Just set it for the cache
dir.
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap6sec73.html
>
> As for pitfalls, I don't really see any outside of forensics. All
> the atime option does is keep track of when a file is read (accessed).
>
> Chris
Received on Wed Oct 12 2005 - 07:59:09 MDT