Re: [squid-users] Hardware setup ?

From: Frog <frog@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:42:08 -0000

> Hey,
>
> We are working on our hardware requirements and am looking for some
> feedback. Please let me know what you think:
>
 
> We currently are planing on two servers being available behind an LVS
> router. These two servers will speak with a squid instance at each
> location so some form of peering can be used.
>
> 3. How do these hardware requirements look, per server:
> - 4 drives for squid cache, hardware raid stripped
> - 4ms seek time, 73GB of space =~ 294GB of cache available
> - Looking to use at least 150GB of cache per server
> - 8GB of RAM
> - Two dual core or two quad core 3.0Ghz processors.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated
>

Sounds like overkill. What OS are you planning on using? Have a look here:

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid

Cheers
Frog
Received on Tue Mar 25 2008 - 04:53:41 MDT

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