Re: [squid-users] Hardware specs

ons 2003-07-23 klockan 03.49 skrev Jason Parlevliet:

> IIRC Squid prefers non raided drives - if you just have two drives it
> handles the many read/write ops better.

Squid prefers to be able to do as many seeks as possible. It does not
need high bandwidth, but it needs a high rate of seeks.

Using a mirror almost divides the seek capacity in half.

A single drive is capable for about 30 requests/s without tuning, 50
with some tuning.

The higher rate you need to sustain, the more careful tuning of your
disk subsystem (number & type of drives, Squid configuration, kernel
settings) you will need to do.

Regards
Henrik

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