Thank you Tay and Adam. Valton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Aube" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: RE: [squid-users] squid performances > > Can somebody tell me please, I want to know, how many requests > > per sec (req/sec) can handle normally a box with these technical > > charachteristics: > > I can give you some tuning suggestions, but not a specific number. > > > RAM - 900 MByte > > HDD - 16 GByte > > Swap Partition - 1G > > cache_dir diskd /var/cache/squid/ 15360 16 256 Q1=72 Q2=64 > > As has already been suggested, make your cache 80% of the drive > size. Also, switch to aufs, since you're on Linux and using a single > drive - you'll get better performance. > > You'll also want to up the L1 setting (16). Per the archive, the > default is good up to a cache of 6.5 GB. I'd recommend setting the L1 > value to 40 or 48. > > Beyond that, check to see if your Squid process becomes I/O bound (use > iostat/vmstat/procinfo). If so, one thing you can try is reducing the > cache size and upping the cache_mem setting. This may reduce disk usage, > at a cost of cache hits. > > Adam > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.237 / Virus Database: 115 - Release Date: 3/7/2001 > >
