> >Any pointers would be appreciated (I'm new to caching), thank you. On 28.06.06 10:53, Chris Robertson wrote: (pretty nice general recommendations, but...) > In no particular order: > *Stay away from regex ACLs. > *Throw as much RAM as you can afford in to the caching servers. > *Use lots of disks. > * Don't RAID your cache disks. don't raid0/raid5 your cache disks. squid has more cache-disks functionality that's better (faster and more secure) than raid0, and raid5 KILLS I/O performance. > *Stay away from the ufs store type (aufs seems to be the more stable > than diskd, diskd might be a bit quicker). since when is diskd faster than aufs? > *Keep your cache_mem setting fairly low (it's only used for objects > fetched from the network), let your system's disk caching work to your > advantage. however you may set up higher cache_mem if you have enough of memory and objects are often fetched from servers. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
