Re: [squid-users] Xeon / P3 / Dual decision

Seriously if you want performance you should be looking
at a dual Athlon MP system. In most benchmarks these
wipe the floor against dual Xeon systems.

Or you could save yourself some $$ and just get a single
Athlon XP 1800+ with 1.5gig DDR ram and then with the
$$ you save you could prolly have a hot backup machine
just using IDE drives.

Linux and Reiser FS would be the OS and filesystem
of choice.

Cheers

Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ahsan Ali" <ahsan@khi.comsats.net.pk>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:46 PM
Subject: [squid-users] Xeon / P3 / Dual decision

> Hello guys,
>
> I'm building a Squid proxy to handle approximately 8Mbit/sec of bandwidth.
> I've decided to use the following:
>
> 3 x 36GB SCSI hard drives
> 1 x 18GB (OS + logging etc - logging only when needed)
> 2 GB RAM [may use 3]
> GBIT Ethernet (may end up using Fast Ethernet only)
>
> I need to maximize bandwidth on this box without completely sacrificing
> latency. I will not be running any content/url/regex checking for blocking
> sites on this proxy - so I think a dual processor system would be a waste.
>
> But I have the following choices with respect to the processor(s):
>
> 1 x P3 - 1.26GHz w/ 256K cache
> 2 x P3 - 1.26GHz w/ 256K cache
> 1 x P3-Xeon-700MHz w/ 2MB cache
> 2 x P3-Xeon-700MHz w/ 2MB cache
>
> Which one should I go for?
>
> Also, when its time to upgrade this box, shall I add more ram and disk or
> just add another identical proxy and peer it with this one?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Ahsan Ali
Received on Wed Nov 07 2001 - 00:23:10 MST