On 04.12.08 04:39, Nyamul Hassan wrote: > Why aren't there any (or marginal / insignificant) improvements over 3 > spindles? Is it because squid is a single threaded application? I would neither thinkg about the first one. Maybe there's some CPU limit in testers' system. > On this note, what impact does the L1 and L2 directories have on AUFS > performance? I understand that these are there to control the number of > objects in each folder. But, what would be a good number of files to keep > in a directory, performance wise? many filesystems work bad when there's too much of directory entries. smaller values should help. the number_of_files/(l1*l2) should not be bigger than any of l1 and l2. With default values (16 256) you should not have more than 1 million (~ 16*256*256) of entries. For more, increase L1... -- 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. REALITY.SYS corrupted. Press any key to reboot Universe.