Re: number of Cache Directories

From: Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. <bench@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:04:47 +0800 (CST)

Would you prefer a non-RAID0 disks, used as cache_dir's?

Can someone explain how load balancing works in squid?

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Henny Bekker wrote:

> Hi Benjamin,
>
> > > Using RAID5 is currently a bad idea and will give poor performance (many
> > > random writes == worst case for RAID5). Either use no disk redundancy or
> > > use mirroring.
> > >
> > How about using RAID0?
> >
> RAID0 is disk-striping, and that's not a bad thing...
>
> I agree RAID5 is useless but it mostly comes with a big write-thrue cache
> which is also a good idea..
>
Received on Sat Feb 06 1999 - 23:51:35 MST

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