Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:28:59 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed... Message-ID: <a9f4a3860807010828x3b1ad8dh28dd7e4848d9fd2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860806301711k707f79cewd491e76418eb1440@mail.gmail.com> References: <a9f4a3860806301711k707f79cewd491e76418eb1440@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > All, > > I've got a Compaq ML570 with 2gb RAM, dual PIII Xeon 700s and 5x10k > RPM drives in it attached to a Compaq 5300 RAID card that I'm going to > be using as a squid box. > > I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare, > and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache on the > latter, and have mounted it as /squid. > > I'm running 7STABLE from a couple of days ago. > > What might I do to achieve better/best performance? I'm replacing a > less capable whitebox. One of the big issues I've had has manifested > itself recently - we've moved from a T1 to a DS3, and while overall > throughput has increased dramatically, people are now complaining that > "the Internet is slow", which I've found is all down to initial page > load. I'm pursuing optimizing squid elsewhere, and want to focus on > getting this box as fast as I reasonably can before sticking squid on > it. I've got more RAM to put into it - I'd be stealing from another > machine that's little used, but I should be able to get it to 4gb RAM. > > As a benchmark, there are about 230 people in my site who will be > using this box for their proxy, and their usage is all over the map - > worse, I haven't been given the time to put any analysis tools into > play to figure out the load on the old box, as we're in the middle of > a number of other projects of equal or higher priority. > > Kurt To further extend the question - what about things like mounting the RAID0 noatime, or other speed-enhancing settings? I've been reading and googleing, trying to figure out how to mount it at boot, and I'm finding it a bit confusing. Kurt
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