Re: [squid-users] Hard Drive Latency

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:54:01 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Matt wrote:

> Can Squid be setup so that under heavy load if due to hard drive access/seek
> time it cannot keep up with requests and object writes it stops caching for
> a little while? I am thinking if I have a single hard drive with ~8ms seek
> and at peak times I receive requests every 3ms I am going to see some poor
> performance on http. I know the ideal solution is to add more drives.

The "aufs" cache_dir type automatically tries to do this when the
harddrive I/O load is too high.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Aug 25 2004 - 11:54:06 MDT

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