Re: [squid-users] Performance Issues Using NTML

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:26:37 +0900

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007, Scott Anctil wrote:

> First my access.log file grows about 200 MB/Hr. This means I reach the
> max file size of 2GB in about 10 hours. I know that I can rotate the
> logs within the 10 hours to solve this but is there a better solution?

./configure --with-large-files

> The second issue is disk IO. I am getting "squidaio_queue_request:
> WARNING - Queue congestion" in the cache.log. I found a number of
> articles that stated not to worry about them unless they are "flooding"
> you cache.log.

> I wouldn't say that they are "flooding" my log but I see one every few
> minutes. However during peak times I am also seeing
> "squidaio_queue_request: WARNING - Disk I/O overloading"

> What is the best path to resolution for this issue?

You could try compiling with more helper threads but it won't help if
you're maxing your disks out.

(Which isn't the same as "maxing the disk IO throughput" or
"maxing the disk IO operations" out; the "maximum disk speed" here is
due to filesystem and squid usage.)

Adrian

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