Re: [squid-users] Squid Cache on a Solaris ZFS file system

Hi Michael,

Michael Pye wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:38:31PM +0545, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
>> I wanted to know if somebody here is running a Squid cache on a Solaris
>> box (i386)?
>> Basically, I want to know if somebody here on this list is using a ZFS
>> file system for a proxy cache and what will be it's performance? Will it
>> improve or degrade Squid's performance? Or better still, is there any
>> kind of benchmark tools for graphing Squid performance on a ZFS file system?
>
> Well I can't offer you much info, but I am running squid on a solaris 10 sparc
> box (v100) using zfs for the cache and logging areas of squid. It's not a
> high performing system but my impression is that performance has improved, but
> I haven't done any benchmarking, the v100 is pretty low spec cpu and only 1
> IDE hd. However, I can recommend using zfs for your caching filesystem.
>
> Also on solaris 10 make sure you compile squid with --enable-devpoll to get
> good performance.

I appreciate your tips and suggestions. Let me compile with the
"--enable-devpoll" parameter and put Squid's Cache objects on a ZFS file
system.

Will update you regarding the performance in the coming days ahead.

Thanking you...

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With best regards and good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Tek Bahadur Limbu
System Administrator
(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department
Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Jawalakhel, Nepal
http://www.wlink.com.np
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