Re: [SQU] Ideal machine.

We will be serviceing about 5000 clients. We will be feeding the servers
(2 of them) a super cache feed from Satellite broadcast. The servers will
also have access to our Internet Connections - 3 T1's. The goal is to
reduce the load on our connections to the Internet.

Thanks,

Ken Rea

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, David Rees wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:37:46PM -0800, Squid Mailing List account wrote:
> >
> > We're about to build a new squid server. What is the hot set up now days
> > for a server keeping cost in mind. We're thinking about 512 Meg of ram and
> > about 35 gigs of drive space. Is it best to use one big drive or to spread
> > it out over several drives. If the latter what is the best way (keeping
> > cost in mind) to achieve this?
>
> How much bandwith do you have, how many users will you be serving, and
> what's your budget? What are your goals?
>
> For a budget minded squid server with good performance, try this:
>
> Duron 700
> 512MB Ram
> 2 15-20GB 7200rpm IDE drives, one on each channel.
>
> If you can spend another $125 each on a third or fourth drive, even
> better, throw in an extra Promise PCI-ATA100 card or get the Asus A7V with
> the Promise IDE card built in with a drive for each channel.
>
> Make sure each drive is on a separate cable and that you're using 80pin
> cables.
>
> Then create 1 squid-cache directory on each drive, and away you go.
>
> If you run out of CPU power (unlikely for such an IO limited task), you
> can always upgrade to the latest 1.2GHz Athlon with no other system
> changes. Remember that squid is mainly IO (network and disk) limited, and
> then memory limited. I doubt that CPU power will be much of an issue.
>
> -Dave
>
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