All,I have been playing with/tweaking/breaking my squid for a few months now, and I am looking for suggestions from the list on improving performance. This is on a home system, which does not have a large user base. I am running a Dual Xeon 2.0 Ghz system with 2 gigs ram, 120 Gigs hard drive, in a Raid 5 configuration controlled by a 3ware RAID card. I was using the stock Fedora 8 RPM for this, which was single threaded, squid 2.6 Stable 22. I am also running this with diskd currently.
I have recently recompiled squid to the latest stable for version 2.7 (Stable 9) with the async io flag passed to the configure command. After a little updating of my configurations, just enough to get it to work (I haven't changed any of the settings that are new to 2.7, so they are defaults right now), I have noticed a drastic improvement in speed and even when the system is at a high load (3-5 on the system load, reported by top) it runs fairly well. I am looking at moving my cache directories off to a different disk, formatted with reiserFS, I am also planning on running it using diskd as the storage scheme. The drive I am using will be about 100 gigs of formatted space, and I plan to use all that space for the cache.
I would like to know if this is a good plan, or should I change some things and how to change them, as well as any suggestions of configuration settings with the cache, and 2.7 options that may make a cache run even faster.
Thanks in advance, Seann
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