On 3/10/2015 12:25 a.m., Job wrote: > Hello, > > i was trying the "null" storage module in Squid 3.4.x. It does not exist. Squid-3 does proper memory-only caching by default. Just erase or comment out all cache_dir lines in your config and it works. > I have some systems with huge users and with high traffic peaks expecially during the morning. > > We use Squid to filter internet traffic. > > Do you think that enabling the cache_dir null will give us better performances and less system usage? RAM is faster than disk. This is a bast fact of I/O. Eliminating the disk from the proxying system changes the I/O needs. Whether that switch is a latency gain or loss depends on your traffic. If your network is faster than the disks you were using; then it may have some gain, otherwise not. Amos _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
