RE: High load squid configuration

Hi.

Yeah.. That is how i have done it in my past experience.. From what i have
read / experienced / heard RAID can reduce performance for a caching
server..

Cya
Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric J Bennett [mailto:Eric.Bennett@nec.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2000 12:09 PM
To: Matthew King
Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: High load squid configuration

Matthew King wrote:

Yes, it's going to be a dedicated proxy server, as for the RAID issue, is it
probably better to just get a series of standard high speed scsi disks and
configure them as cache dirs?

Thanks for your help

Eric

> Hi.
>
> As disscussed a few weeks ago on the list.. RAID is not a huge performance
> increase for Squid.. Is the server going to be a dedicated proxy server?
Or
> will it be running other services aswell? That might be something to take
> into consideration..
>
> Cya
> Matthew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric J Bennett [mailto:Eric.Bennett@nec.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2000 10:24 AM
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: High load squid configuration
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm about to configure a dedicated squid proxy server for a high
> bandwidth (155mb lan with 10mbps link to the net) high use (3000
> students) network, what should be the primary considerations here, at
> the moment I'm looking at a PIII - 500mhz with a SCSI Raid array and
> 256mb ram running linux.
>
> Has anyone done anything similiar to this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Eric J Bennett
Received on Wed Feb 16 2000 - 19:48:55 MST