Re: [squid-users] Load

Quite right!

Apologies....

It is a P3 1 Ghz with 512 Mb RAM and a single 40Mb 5400 rpm IDE Hard drive.

I asked the question because I am trying to investigate a strange problem on
the box. This is acting as a transparent cache and is receiving all the port
80 requests by our clients via our router.

Over the past three days, the box died twice without any apparent reason
being recorded on the logs. It stopped responding to a ping and obviously
browsing was down for all the network. Then the service came back up of its
own accord and the machine starting answering pings once more.

Not sure where to look at this stage.... I thought about the Network Card
too... its a Realtek.

Thanks...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon White" <simon@mtds.com>
To: "squid" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Load

> 23-Mar-02 at 18:52, Mailing Lists (mailing@keyworld.net) wrote :
> > Hi people,
> >
> > What would you guys clasify as a "high load" Squid box? In other words,
what
> > number of requests per second would you consider to be large?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I don't think anyone has replied, and with good reason. You cannot talk
about
> a "high load" for Squid without giving a hardware configuration. A high
load
> for a IBM-8086 with 128Kb RAM with a 300 baud modem is not the same as a
high
> load for a Pentium 4 with 4Gb RAM and internal SCSI disks, etc.
>
> However, above 300req/s you need to really know what you are doing to get
> Squid to work well, if I can believe previous posts to the list.
>
> So, please be much more specific. You might find you get very good
responses.
> Perhaps you might already quote from benchmarks that you have read online,
> they are out there. Then compare that to the actual performance issues you
are
> having.
>
> --
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Lennon
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> mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all
along.
>
Received on Mon Mar 25 2002 - 07:21:09 MST