On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Dieter Bloms wrote: > Hi, > > we use squid as shipped with SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 > (squid-2.5.STABLE5-42.41). > > The throughput is slower, when I get the data from cache and is faster, > when I use the -r option to get the data from the webserver. > > --snip-- > > This is my squid.conf > > --snip-- > cache_dir diskd /var/cache/squid 15360 16 256 > --snip-- > > I'm alone on this server, which has 2G Ram and 2 Xeon 3.4 GHz CPUs. > The cache_dir is a hardware raid1 with 36 GByte Space. > > Does anybody have an idea why the throughput is lower, when I get the > data from cache instead from the webserver ? I had a similar problem under Linux where cache hits were really slow on a server that was not busy. Switching to aufs fixed the problem for me (ie just replace the word "diskd" with "aufs" on the cache_dir line). I know the FAQ suggests that diskd gives better performance (or it did the last time I checked). I think that the FAQ may need updating to advise that diskd or aufs may give the best performance depending on the load and OS. Steven
