On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:54:01 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Maybe, but the behavior of squid is always the same, no matter if I put the log files, the (read-only, empty) disk cache and the rest of squid's stuff in /var on the tmpfs or not. Probably I forgot something to move to tmpfs, but outside of /var and /tmp there should be no place where programs write "/var" things? When I shutdown squid there is almost no spinning up. (There is, in "bad" moments, when going online off offline by isdnutils, for example.) > Are you mounting with the noatime option? No, I'll try it. > Maybe there's another http proxy that doesn't require any disk access? I think so, but it should support transparent proxy. I think you can't take any proxy and use it as a transparent proxy, or am I wrong? Thanks, Joachim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
