Re: [squid-users] squid with linux or freeBSD?

From: fooler <fooler@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:01:19 +0800

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Jaeggli" <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: "fooler" <fooler@skyinet.net>
Cc: "Mauro" <mauro.sanna6@tin.it>; "Ahmad Masood Shah"
<masood@ipsec.fibre.net.pk>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid with linux or freeBSD?

> why raid your disks at all? you'll get before performance out of having
> seperate cache dirs on each disk than you will out of any kind of
> stripe...

because writing or reading a single data across multiple disks/stripes is
much better than having a separate cache dirs... raid 0 or stripping
distribute the load and minimize the positioning of a disk head (seek time)
which is the most obvious bottleneck of a disk...

> the data in the cache isn't important enough to save over a disk crash
> anyway.

true...

fooler.
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