Re: [squid-users] Squid requirements

> Adrian Chadd schrieb:
>> What we're really missing is a bunch of "hardware x, config y, testing
>> z, results a, b, c." TMF used to have some stuff up for older hardware
>> but there's just nothing recent to use as a measuring stick..
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>> 2008/7/16 Chris Robertson <crobertson_at_gci.net>:
>>
>>> Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
>>>
>>>> HI folks
>>>>
>>>> I already know that there is not a recipe for squid. But I wonder if
>>>> anyone knows an official document that lists squid requirements.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> LD
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's a bit like asking "What kind of a car should I get?". You need
>>> to
>>> give some details of the expected workload.
>>>
>>> In general, get a higher clocked CPU, as much RAM and as many drives as
>>> you
>>> can afford, and use regex based ACLs sparingly.
>>>
>>> Chris
> OK - then let's start collecting some numbers with more recent hardware:
>
> we have a Squid 3 stable 5 on a opensuse 10.3 running on following
> system for about 100 users
> with adequate response times:
> IBM xSeries 3250 M2
> 1x Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4 Ghz/800 MHz (2 MB L2 cache)
> 3 GB PC2-5300 CL5 ECC DDR2 SDRAM DIMM
> 2x 250 GB SATA hard drive as a mirror configuration
>
> This system is doing virus-scanning with ICAP-enabled Squid through KAV
> 5.5
> Kaspersky AntiVirus for Internet Gateways
> AND it is doing web-content filtering with SquidGuard 1.3
> AND it is doing NTLM AUTH against the internal W2k3-ADS-domain

Thank you.
Are you able to indicate the average req/sec your machine is reaching?

Amos
Received on Thu Jul 17 2008 - 04:02:04 MDT