Michael wrote: > I have an extra 120GB drive I'm not using for anything. Would there be > any downside to devoting the entire drive to a Squid cache?
First of all, you should only use about 80% of the drives capacity for cache if the drive is purely for caching - the reasons are in the FAQ. Second, a drive of this size would require a massive amount of memory to hold cache metadata - approximately 10 MB per GB of cache. That's just the metadata - that does not include other memory used by Squid, the OS, and any other applications. > Can Squid even use that big of a cache? Yes, though you should increase the L1 and L2 settings accordingly - the defaults are good for about 6.5 GB of cache. Adam
