Re: Proxy for PXE install
I've set manually the cache to 8GB. in the evening I ran
one PXE install to populate the cache. This morning with full
cache the package request still goes to the external net.
Cheers
Giorgio
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 09:33:18AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Giorgio Pioda]
> > Hi,
> >
> > after testing a while and monitoring the network trafic, my neat
> > impression is that the squid proxy, although well populated (I see
> > the squid directory growing) doesn't work during PXE install (at
> > least in qemu) and all the packages are downloaded again and again
> > from the net.
>
> Did you test after using the automatic partitioning of your
> main-server? Without a separate partition for the squid cache, the
> proxy will use very little disk space and thus have a very small
> cache.
>
> I tested today with my main-server, and the PXE installation used the
> proxy and almost all the packages (not the updated debian-edu-config,
> which is good) were fetched from squid and not from the remote APT
> mirror. I got 75 Mbit/s when installing, while the first installation
> filling the cache had 40 Mbit/s. :)
>
> root@tjener:/etc# df -h /var/spool/squid
> Filsystem Storlek Anvnt Tillg Anv% Monteret på
> /dev/mapper/vg_system-var+spool+squid
> 15G 2,8G 11G 21% /var/spool/squid
> root@tjener:/etc# grep ^cache_dir /etc/squid/squid.conf
> cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 11534 16 256
> root@tjener:/etc#
> --
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
>
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