Re: hotlinking and server opinion

If you are only using one drive per IDE channel, EIDE will give you
marginally better performance than SCSI. Otherwise I agree that multiple
SCSI drives work better.

D

Mike Batchelor wrote:
>
> I think EIDE is a bad idea for squid, especially with just ONE drive.
>
> You'll be logging to this drive, and you'll be caching to this drive, plus all
> the other stuff your host OS does to the drive. My 750+ users quickly overran
> a single FW-SCSI-2 drive in a 2 CPU Origin 200. Adding a second drive for
> just the cache swap helped relieve this bottleneck, but the cache drive still
> peaks at around 80% utilization, which is just too high for comfort. I plan
> to stripe the cache drive into a multi-spindle volume. But you can't easily
> do this with EIDE, since the IDE bus is not shared - when one drive is busy
> the other one waits. You can add a second drive as a master on the secondary
> IDE port, but that's as far as you can expand.
>
> Go with SCSI, use multiple drives. Otherwise, your squid cache will be
> spending most of it's time waiting on I/O. Load will be high but CPU
> utilization will be very low. You'll waste the PII-350 if you use EIDE.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin Smith [mailto:blacula@execpc.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 11:46 AM
> > To: squid-users@ircache.net
> > Subject: hotlinking and server opinion
> >
> >
> > I am looking at building a squid box as a http accelerator for an existing
> > apache box that is getting over 250k+ hits a day. Due to the cgi work on
> > that server, it is getting a little busy.
> >
> > My plan is to use the squid box as the front end handling all static
> > graphics and images. While the existing box handles the rest using the
> > squid box as its gateway.
> >
> > Here is my problem. I do not know if hotlinking would be stopped. I am
> > running a freehost and I do not want users to have their site located on
> > another site and link to my site for only images. Currently, the machines
> > .htaccess takes care of that and I am curious if the reverse proxy will
> > recognize this.
> >
> > Second, I plan on buidling a PII 350/384megs/10gig EIDE drive. Anyone
> > with any good/bad stories to report
> >
> > Thanks
> > Justin
> >
Received on Thu May 13 1999 - 21:24:17 MDT