smaugadi wrote:
Dear ALL, We have a squid server with high volume of traffic, 200 – 300 MB. The server is in transparent mode and using 18GB of ramdisk. With this configuration performance is very good (after optimizing the squid and the linux machine). The problem is the small size of cache directory. Since IO is a big issue with squid we purchased the intel ssd x25-m 160gb
hmmmm, i have not yet experimented with an ssd, but i've read that it's advised to disable swap because heavy reads/writes kill the thing. the information was in regards to using an ssd on a netbook running linux - (for example running windows on the netbook with an ssd is certain death, unavoidable doom - as you probably know windows machines read and write to the disk like there's no tomorrow, and for no real good reason - they swap just for the heck of it, even just turning the thing on it starts swapping)
so... it would make sense to me that you're going to experience troubles running a high traffic cache on an ssd.
Waitman
