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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!mindspring!uunet!in2.uu.net!194.77.0.15!news.gtn.com!klemm.gtn.com!not-for-mail From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Formating Drives For Squid Date: 5 Apr 1997 18:03:21 GMT Organization: private site powered by FreeBSD, see http://www.freebsd.org/ Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5i6459$en2$1@klemm.gtn.com> References: <3346eefa.0@news.topend.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: klemm.gtn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38692 In article <3346eefa.0@news.topend.com.au>, nagy@darwin.topend.com.au (Robert Nagy) writes: > Hi Folks, > > I'll be formatting a couple of drives to use as disk cache with squid. > What is the best block size (& other settings) to set these drives up as. > Both drives are 3.1GB in size. The new squid's cachemgr.cgi interface shows you how many percent of objects use a certain block size ... So I'd first suggest you use the standard ufs filesystem block- and fragsize, 8k/1k, but increasing the number of inodes, since I assume, you get similar little files as in a news filesystem. After investigating your squid's "real life" disk space usage, object sizes, figure out what to do ... -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<