I presume the FAQ refers to the cache drives and not the OS drives (assuming they are seprate drives)? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.elsen@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 16 May 2006 09:27 AM To: Paolo Biancolli Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Squid and RAID > Hi, > > I read in a passed thread that running squid on a box with raid > negatively affects performance of squid. Is this true for raid 5 as > well as raid 0 ? The plan, if we decide to use raid, is to use 2 disks > with raid 0 for OS (FC5) and have one disk with reiser fs for cache. > Is this recommended or should we stay away from raid altogether? http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-3.html#ss3.11 > > What is the recommended amount of RAM required if we use a 72GB cache > or alternatively a 144GB cache? This too, (relationship between cache size and mem. requirements) is described in the FAQ. M. > > Many thanks > > Paolo Biancolli >
