large proxies

Hi all, we've been running a few squid caches for a few years. Ive been
looking at new proxies (current ones are nearing end of life).
Squid is currently the prefered option (although Netcache is also in the
picture).

Is anyone here running a large cache on squid? Say 100GB in disk capacity.
If so, what kind of system is it? It seems you need like 2gb memory for such
large caches.

Is there any research available as to if a 100gb cache is even worth it?
Should we remain with something smaller like 25gb (currectly).
We serve several tens of thousands of users.

Also, are Netcaches worth the money? Anyone know of an 'independant' test
of several caches?

Regards,

Cor Bosman
Received on Mon Feb 21 2000 - 04:45:38 MST