On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Michael Gale wrote:
> I am not sure I would use IDE drives, depending on your cache size the
> IDE will have a slower read write time. If you have the budget go with
> SCSI.
A single reasonably modern IDE drive is usually fine for up to ca 40-50
requests/s.
> If not, we use a PIII 1GHz with 1GB of RAM - 700MB of RAM for the OS and squid
> to use and 300MB for the "cache" directory. Of course we lose all the cache if
> the box reboots -- but it is only cache, you can copy it to a HDD directory
> if you really want to keep it.
Sounds like a total overkill for the environment. This box is is capable
of handling many thousands of concurrent office users.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 01:50:18 MDT
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