Thanks henrik for yr reply i am using 2 scsi disk with reiserfs file system with mounted notail,noatime options
how can i improve Disk I/O performance ?? i use some ircache.net proxies for testing i feel they more efficient than my local proxies :) should Freebsd OS faster than Redhat or any kernel compilation needed ? Thanks and Regards UW --- Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, unixware wrote: > > > i change the default cache_mem size 32 MB to 512 > MB > > Why? > > > but still there no improvement in performace i > want to take maxium > > output my hardware ?? > > cache_mem normally only makes marginal differences > on performance in > normal proxies. It is more important to tune the > disk I/O parts correctly. > > only if you are running a reverse proxy for a web > server where all the > mainly requested content can fit in your memory is > cache_mem going to make > a significant difference. > > Regards > Henrik > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
