On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:31:55PM +1000, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote: > > Can anyone out there using squid-2.4STABLE give feedback on what > 2.4 kernel ( plus any patches ) are you using ...and for how long??
I have a small squid-2.4 installation running on a private "Pentium class" box to serve a dozen people at my home. load is rather low with the cache partition being only a small 300meg reiserfs and an ADSL upstream. The System partitions are ext2. It had 2.4.PRE-STABLE1 and now, roughly since its release, 2.4.STABLE1 running on unpatched linux-2.4.5, 2.4.7 and since yesterday 2.4.10. There were various squid/linux versions running on it for about two years now, down to some 2.3.STABLE on linux-2.2 with reiserfs patches. The box is used for various other tasks, read "homegrown multipurpose server", i.e. nfs/smb/http/mail/burning CDs/etc. squid on reiserfs never ever caused me a single problem. on another note, since you are after performance, i suspect that fitting your machine with more than 128MB RAM (depending on squid's cache size) will be of much more importance, rather than a snappier-than-ext2 filesystem. Alexander Koch
