Re: [squid-users] Multiple disk cache

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: 27 Nov 2002 22:02:26 +1100

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 14:50, Dodjie Nava wrote:
> hi squid users,
>

> my server is a p4-1.6ghz, w/ 512mb ram, running redhat 7.3 & squid 2.4
> stable 7-4. i'm not using special configs for squid, just an access
> list of all ips that we have.

You have waaay too much disk. See the squid FAQ for details, but in
short, squid needs at least 10Mb of RAM per 1Gb of disk cache - your
maximum cache size is somewhat under 50Gb for reasonable performance.

Or, you can add RAM to that machine.

Rob

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