On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, unixware wrote: > that mean using multiple drive aslo improve > performance .
Indeed. The main bottleneck for a properly set up Squid cache is seek time. There is generally to ways to optimize seek time a) Buy a faster harddrive. b) Use more than one harddrive. For Squid two harddrives with 12ms seek time is a lot better than one harddrive with 8ms seek time. But all this assumes the system and your Squid is properly set up with an async cache_dir type and the appropriate OS level tuning to allow Squid to really make use of the hardware. The choice of filesystems can only do so much and is not a substitute for good hardware performance. A poor choice of filesystem can however make the situation considerably worse. Regards Henrik
