Re: [squid-users] capacity of squid

Why reiserFS?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamid Hashemi Golpayegani" <hamid@morva.net>
To: <patrice.valentin@chq.alstom.com>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:21 AM
Subject: RE: [squid-users] capacity of squid

> Hey Patrice ,
>
> Just try it ! Do you think that Squid is an MSProxy or something like that
> ?!
> You machine is too strong too handle all of your 500 clients . But the
only
> thinks that you must tell us is that how much is your bandwidth ?!
> I am trying something like this machine may be worse than this one for a 4
> MegaBit send and receive sattelite line for about 500 client that 200 of
> them are dial-up and works prefectly .
> Just try it ! and don't forget to tune your squid machine to use async-io
> and reiserFS if you are using Linux or use Diskd on FreeBSD .
>
> --
> Regards
>
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> / Seyyed Hamid Reza / WINDOWS FOR NOW !! /
> / Hashemi Golpayegani / Linux for future , FreeBSD for ever /
> / Morva System Co. / ------------------------------------- /
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patrice.valentin@chq.alstom.com
> [mailto:patrice.valentin@chq.alstom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:31 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] capacity of squid
>
>
>
>
> Hi, i have implemented a squid (squid-2.3.STABLE4-1) on a server. It's a
> Dell
> power edge 2450 with 512Mb of Ram, a pentium III 733 processor, a 100Mb/s
> network adapter, 2 disks in Raid1 (18 Gb Ultra3Wide SCSI), i need to serve
> around 5000 clients on a country, that i want to know is how much tcp
> connections a single squid can serve ? and if there is a limit, what
happen
> beyond this limit ? are the requests send directly, like a passthrough
cache
> ?
> TIA
> Patrice Valentin
>
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Received on Fri Mar 16 2001 - 07:48:01 MST