Re: large proxies

Cor,

I think I replied to somone else on this list recently regarding proxy
caches of this size. I'm just finishing up specifications for a farm of 4
squid servers - they are all PIII 500's (or, when the time comes to
purchase, what ever cpu is entry level - remember, cpu isnt a major factor
in squid), 1Gb RAM each and, yet to be finalised, between 72.8 and 91Gb of
9.1Gb 10K RPM Drives.

The disk space is more than required for the use required, but, it serves
as growth.

Regards

Adam

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Cor Bosman wrote:

> 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 - 15:17:26 MST