Re: [squid-users] Disk space for two node squid

On 25/02/2011 06:04, N3O wrote:
> Hi
>
> I want to create a 2-node squid reverse caching layer for an apache
> server that has these features:
>
> - 2 Xeon@ 2GHz
> - 2 GB RAM
> - 72GB HD RAID1
> - RHEL with Kernel 2.6.9
> - 1 EXT3 filesystem
>
> Traffic is a million visits/month
>
> My question is, how much disk space should i allocate for caching data
> on the squid nodes?
> my idea is to use amazon Ec2 instances for them, but i dont know how
> much disk space should
> i use for caching data under this scenario...
>
> Any recomendation will be welcomed!
>
> Greetings
>
Hi,

How big is the static content on your website ? I would start with a
minimum of that, unless you have gig's and gig's of static content that
might be viewed once or twice a year. I would not go less than 5 gig
tho. It might sound like a little bit, but you will be very surprised
how much you can fit in 5gig, web wise, and how well Squid handles all
of that.

Cheers,

Pieter
Received on Thu Feb 24 2011 - 17:15:16 MST