[squid-users] Re: Hardware requirements

<trainier@kalsec.com> wrote in message
news:OF33880B1C.BC003A8F-ON85256CCB.004E138E-85256CCB.004E49F7@kalsec...
> 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.
>
> Tim Rainier
> Unix Systems Admin., Kalsec INC.
> Email: trainier@kalsec.com
>

Hi Tim

I am currently serving 5000 users (average 40 requests per second) on a P2
450 with only IDE drives. It's average day-time load is between 40 and 80%.
I shall shortly be upgrading to dual Xeon 2.8s, 2Gb, 4*UW160 73gb, 2*GBIC.
Probably overkill, but this should last into the near future.

Regards,

Chris
Received on Wed Feb 12 2003 - 10:08:34 MST