Re: [squid-users] Hardware requirements

trainier@kalsec.com wrote:
>
> I'm working on building a proxy server for a small company. We've less
> than 500, but plan to purchase hardware for 1000 users.
> Any ideas on how much disk space, memory, cpu(s)? RAID? SCSI? Would
> love to hear some ball-park figures to help with our
> decision in purchasing hardware for the box.

 I am serving about 1500 users on an ex compaq proliant ML370 box
 which is PIII based and 1Gb Ram running
 redhat Linux 6.2. This machines make me very happy.
 During office hours squid is serving an average of 30url's/sec.
 But this hardware has more potential and I think the box
 could easily handle 60 reqs/sec or more.

 Cache size (disk space) will depend on your end
 user's 'web access profile'.
 For instance try to have an idea about the amount of Megs transferred
 per week. This could be an adequate indicator about the needed cache
size.

 I have 11Gb's going 'through squid' each day (more or less).
 I configured a 40Gb cache, giving me an average of 50% hitrate
 nowadays.

 M.

>
> Tim Rainier
> Unix Systems Admin., Kalsec INC.
> Email: trainier@kalsec.com

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