Re: [squid-users] Squid Caches

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 04:41:11 -0600

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:
> > to distribute the I/O load on more than one disk.
> >
> > Striped disks are best at high bandwidth sequential read/writes. Squid
> > performs none of these, nor does it require high disk I/O bandwidth.
> > What Squid requires is good seek times which you get by having multiple
> > drives being able to service different requests in parallell.
>
> BTW. what is COSS storage type in squid. i found code but almost no docs?

I can answer that. :-)

Its a cyclic filesystem. It is still rather broken in the main squid
codebase, but I'm slowly fixing it.

Documentation is one of the things I'm also working on. :-)

If you'd like to help, give me a shout.

Adrian
Received on Sun Apr 29 2001 - 04:41:11 MDT

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