3 disks -> use a raid 0 across two for cache, and use the third for logs and swap. Any OS that agressively buffers writes should have little problem with logs on a single disk; this is more ideal than a two disk situation, but doesn't provide redundancy (via mirror) like a raid 1, so have good backup for your logs.
Sean -----Original Message----- From: Mauro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:15 AM To: Henrik Nordstrom Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [squid-users] More than one cache? But I have only 3 disks. >raid5 is the worst possible disk model for Squid performance. The >performance of your three disks is almost limited to that of a single >disk when using raid5. >I would install one more drive, then use two of the drives in mirror for >OS, swap and logs, and two drives as plain drives without mirror for >cache. Alternatively two mirrors with the data spread out on both.
