Re: Is squid unable to handle the load?

Am Tue, May 26, 1998 at 05:45:12PM +0200, meinte Markus Storm:

> > Does anybody have any ideas????????
> >
>
> Check your disk usage. You're using *one* big disk ?
> Squid 1.1 is accessing the disk sequentially, causing a bottleneck
> when (# disk requests * time/request) = 1.
> The disk doesn't handle as many requests as are coming in and the squid
> request queue fills up, causing the slowdown.
> Note that each miss is also causing disk access for writing.
>
> Go for several disks; preferrably striped.
> Or go 1.2, it supports asynchronous disk I/O.

1.2 is the best bet here, I guess.
You can find out about your disk-performance by doing some
bonnie-runs with files bigger than your RAM.

The seeks/second should tell you something ...

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