Re: Hardware for large organization

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, 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.

Dual CPUs are probably not worth the investment and 1GB RAM seems to
much for a small (20GB) cache. However, your load levels are quite high.
I suggest you look into buying two $2K PCs and load balance them with a
L4 switch or other load balancing technique. You can start with a small
disk space (say, 4 scsi spindles, ~16-32GB, per box) and then increase
it by adding more spindles as you get more experience with managing
Squid.

> Am what we are planning overkill or not enough? Will one server be
> sufficient for our load? Thank you for insight.

One powerful tuned box may be sufficient. Two boxes may cost you about
the same amount of money while giving more robust configuration.

$0.01,

Alex.
Received on Fri Aug 06 1999 - 10:27:55 MDT