Joachim Förster said:
Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)?
I don't know why it uses the hard disk, but if it is only reading those files and there is enough memory that they are cached in the kernel file cache, then perhaps the atime is being updated and that is causing the disk to spin up?
Are you mounting with the noatime option?
Maybe there's another http proxy that doesn't require any disk access?
I am interested in following this thread. I would like to set up a similar computer, with as few fans and spinning drives (zero would be ideal) as possible while staying inexpensive and low-power.
For starters, consider via's eden PC's. Most of them are fanless.
Then look at the hard drives that are out their with Fluid Bearings.
Seagate is one, I think there a japanese company (Fujitsu or something) that also has very low noise hard drives.
If you are rich and demanding, get a Solid State Hard Drive.
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