Re: Ideal setup

From: Brian <signal@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:28:53 -0600 (CST)

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Gary Palmer wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm setting up a squid and I have a machine with 7 2 gig drives
> to use as the cache store (another 2 gig for root, etc). The
> machine will be running FreeBSD. I have a couple of questions:
>
> - What is the best version of squid for a production environment?
> (even just for testing)

go with the latest stable version, I think its 1.1.20, maybe 1.1.21 is out
though.

>
> - What is the best way to handle the drives? Leave them as individual
> drives and just tell squid to use 7 2 gig subdirectories, or
> stripe the drive?

If you have multiple drives (which you do) and your OS has software raid
(which yours does), then yes, use it.

Brian

>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary Palmer
> NOC Supervisor
> Erols Internet
>

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