Re: solaris 7 & squid

From: Pauline van Winsen <pauline@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:40:49 +1100 (EST)

 
> > the cache filesystems are mounted with the "noatime" option. /etc/vfstab
> > entries for cache filesystems look like so:
> > /dev/md/dsk/d3 /dev/md/rdsk/d3 /var/cache1 ufs 2 yes
noatime
>
> I think you will find slightly better performance if you also enable
> logging on your UFS filesystems, but I have not studied Solaris 7 UFS
> logging in detail.. Comments on Solaris 7 logging UFS welcome.

this isn't something i've looked at. squid is performing extremely well
& i'm not inclined to "fix it" 8-)
  
> > in /etc/nscd.conf:
> > suggested-size hosts 1001
> > this figure was found after numerous looks at the output of 'nscd -g'.
> > nscd hit rate is generally around 99%.
>
> Unless they have changed nscd to a multithreaded implementation in
> Solaris 7, it will be a performance killer for DNS lookups.

nscd is threaded in solaris 7.
 
> > there is also a caching bind-8.2.2-P5 named running on the host.
> > some sources of info say this is not an ideal config for squid,
> > but it's necessary in this situation to handle both internet &
> > intranet dns lookups.
>
> Squid and named happily coexists on the same host, provied you have the
> memory to host both. It is all a matter of resource control.

yep.

cheers,
pauline
Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 18:49:59 MST

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