[squid-users] Linux EXT3 optimizations for Squid

I'm setting up a RHEL 5.3 64-bit Squid installation using
squid-2.7.STABLE9. It's not a high volume server, and there will be two,
but I wondered if there was anything special I should do with the cache
disk, which is an EXT3 file system. I do mount it with the noatime option.

I'm using AUFS with this cache_dir configuration:
cache_dir aufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 20000 16 256

My file system is mounted:
LABEL=/cache /usr/local/squid/var/cache ext3
rw,noatime 1 2

I'm not sure the model of the disk, but it's:
73GB 15K RPM SA SCSI 6Gbps 2.5in (Dell system)

Any suggestions (besides adding more disk!).

-Mike
Received on Sat Aug 07 2010 - 17:06:32 MDT