Re: [SQU] Cobalt CacheRaq vs Traditional

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Joe Cooper wrote:
> It's easy to match or beat their performance on your
> own, because it seems they do little performance tweaking.

The performance of the cobalt boxes is quite similar to a pc with a
similar amount of ram and a single spindle (and comparable cpu)... on any
hand-built squid box at this point you're likely to have a lot more ram
(256MB or up) and a larger number of faster disks... (you can dial in the
amount of ram and the size of the single disk on the raq 4i)

They aren't bad boxes, and if the drop-in appliance computing model
appeals to you they're more than adequate. but if you're looking for a
scaleable high-performance box, I'd either build one yourself or look for
a vendor delivering that kinda of product...

> Merely the opinions of a competing Squid-based appliance vendor...
> Others may feel differently.
>
> Hubbard, Dan wrote:
>
> > Any advice / experience with the Cobalt (now Sun) CacheRaq box vs
> > running a traditional Squid Proxy on Intel w/Linux.
> >
> > From what I understand the CacheRaq is simply a MIPS box running Linux
> > and Squid with a web managment front end.
> >
> > Thanks
>
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