Re: [squid-users] question about filesystems and directories for cache.

Tony Dodd wrote:
> Matias Lopez Bergero wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
> <snip>
>>
>> I'm being reading the wiki and the mailing list to know, which is the
>> best filesystem to use, for now I have chose ext3 based on comments on
>> the list, also, I have passed the nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime flags to
>> fstab in order to get a security and faster performance.
>>
> <snip>
>
> Hi Matias,
>
> I'd personally recommend against ext3, and point you towards reiserfs.
> ext3 is horribly slow for many small files being read/written at the
> same time. I'd also recommend maximizing your disk throughput, by
> splitting the raid, and having a cache-dir on each disk; though of
> course, you'll loose redundancy in the event of a disk failure.
>
> I wrote a howto that revolves around maximizing squid performance,
> take a look at it, you may find it helpful:
> http://blog.last.fm/2007/08/30/squid-optimization-guide
>
Thank you
I'll try that!

Regards,
Matías.
Received on Mon Nov 26 2007 - 08:02:23 MST