RE: [squid-users] Cache Performance Tips

Thank you for the link..that was what I was looking for.

Yes the DL360 will just be used for a demo. I am using squidGuard for
redirection and blacklists and feel comfortble with that but the sheer
volume of different settings in squid.conf has me a little worried.

For the demo, the ACL's and blacklists will impress the most but I want
to understand the caching better before the server gets thrown into the
fire. Is there any way to auto stress test squid? Any apps or the
like?

If all goes well, we will implement squid in a tradeshow environment
with about 500 computers. I have a request to purchase 2 bigger and
faster servers that will be run as peers to load balance.

Specs for production servers are follows:

Debian Woody Stable
P4 2.6 GHz / 512k cache
1 gb RAM
(2) 80gb ATA HDD - probably be mirrored for failsafe

Thanks for the help everyone!
-jnorton

-----Original Message-----
From: Hendrik Voigtlaender [mailto:hendrik@voigtlaenders.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 6:50 AM
To: Jerry Norton
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Cache Performance Tips

Read this:
http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/High-Performance-Web-Caching-W
ith-Squid

I think this machine is not suitable for a bigger production environment

- it wont hold enough disks.
If you do a demo, you will probably have only a couple of clients? No
need to tune the cache in this case.

Otherwise I would suggest reiserfs on the cachedisk/partition. I would
increase cache_mem and cache_dir size moderately.

How do you define good impression? E.g. using delay pools, redirectors
like squidGuard or authentication will probably impress people, but it
is not really performance tuning...

Regards, Hendrik.

Jerry Norton wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I am new to squid and very impressed so far. I'm feeling a little
>swamped though as I'm on a timeline to demo this for production. I
>have the O'Reilly Squid book and have read through the first few
>chapters and skimmed the rest. With so many config options, I was
>hoping I could run my server specs by you all to get some suggestions
>on tuning for performance. I'm just using the defaults currently.
>
>Server is a Compaq DL360, 800mhz, 1gb RAM, 9gb HDD.
>
>Anyone suggest any variables that I can change from the defaults and
>why?
>Again I'm just learning but I really need to make a good impression
>fast.
>
>Thanks everyone for your help,
>
>.....................................................
>Jerry Norton
>broadGap Technologies
>(801)763-8056 / (877)broadgap
>802 East Bamberger Drive - American Fork - UT - 84003
>.....................................................
>
>
>
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Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 10:17:54 MDT