Re: [squid-users] IDE HardDisk

try using the hdparm -i /dev/hdX (in your HD, of course) and try to match
all the options that your HD supports. Often I got at least 7 times speed
up. you could try of course, some *may* dangerous options to get more
speed.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 jhorton@equiinet.com wrote:

> I have used hdparm on ide disks - but although the byte transfers can be
> 2 - 3 times as fast, the block transfers are (in my experience) often
> only increased by a very small amount - however - it is possible that my
> bonnie testing was at fault!
>
> Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior wrote:
>
> why don't you use hdparm to speed up the IDE disk? if you have a *new* ide
> disk, you could get a very higher performance if you uses this software.
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Mark Tinka wrote:
>
> >you can actually use an IDE hard disk and get some
> >good speeds, even comparable to SCSI disks.. it's all
> >in the disk driver... what u will need is 80-pin UDMA
> >cable, and a hard disk that supports UDMA [Ultra
> >Direct Memory Access].. and most importantly, u will
> >need some IDE controllers that can support UDMA... up
> >to at least mode 4, which can take you up to 133Mbps
> >transfer rate.. u can get these kinds of speeds, but u
> >will need to have some kind of mini-port driver that
> >will talk to your computer's chipset...
> >
> >once u have this, you system will, at times, pick up
> >the disk as a SCSI disk..
> >
> >good luck..
> >
> >AKNIT
> >
> >
> >--- jhorton@equiinet.com wrote: > I use an ide disk -
> >however - it will be slow! - try
> >
> >>keeping cache size
> >>low (I find on my box p400 that around 100Mb works
> >>well) - try using
> >>cache_dir params of L1=16 and L2=128
> >>good luck!
> >>ps.
> >>I have never tried it - but using a ramdisk may be a
> >>better solution if
> >>you can afford the ram - use a cron job to save
> >>everything to disk
> >>periodically?!
> >>
> >>nobody nogroup wrote:
> >>
> >>it is possible for me to use non-scsi harddisk to
> >>run squid ?
> >>and how to configure it that can make my squid
> >>running well.
> >>
> >>regards
> >>Eko Nurhadi
> >>
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