Re: [squid-users] Squid Under High Load

From: Michel Santos <michel@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:00:35 -0200 (BRST)

Manoj Rajkarnikar disse na ultima mensagem:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michel Santos wrote:
>
> 16MB. we analyzed the access logs for size distribution and the hitrate
> and number of request distribution shows only very few requests are made
> for objects of size greater than 20MB and every big object requested will
> take up a large cache space where there could have been more smaller
> objects.
>
>> I use 150-250Gb for cache_dirs and still feel it too small, but I permit
>> 700MB max so a complete iso image can get cached
>>
>
> objects of that size is rarely downloaded here and is not worth caching at
> all. may not be true in your situation.
>

depends how you look at it
disk space is cheap and serving one 650MB object is a fat win even if it
happens only twice a month

> use scalar squid log analyzer and analyze your access logs daily and
> you can find out what max object size is better suited for you. I rotate
> the access log daily and have wrote a simple shell script that'll analyze
> the access log daily and generate a webpage. can send it if you like. it
> uses scalar.awk (downloadable).
>

nice and thanks for you kind offer, but I turn logging completly off,
even if the performance boost is not very impressive I do not need to take
care of log files and I am really not so sure if this does not hurt users
privacy, but main reason I am lazy and like performance ;)

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