Re: Hardware for large organization

Jeff Beck wrote:
>
> We are planning to install Squid as a proxy server for a large, 40,000
> user network. Currently, during the day at least, our T3 has about 7-10
> mbs going through it. We have at least 15,000 concurrent connections as
> well.
> I'm curious as to what kind of hardware we need for this proxy server.
> I'm thinking of getting a Dell Poweredge with dual 450's and 1/2 to 1
> gig of ram, and 20 gigs of raid5, scsi storage.
> Am what we are planning overkill or not enough? Will one server be
> sufficient for our load? Thank you for insight.
> Jeff

The raid5 will kill you. Skip it. Go for 1GB of ram instead of a half.

D
Received on Fri Aug 06 1999 - 21:00:03 MDT