Re: [squid-users] Sizing a pretty Large Squid Install

> is seeing. In fact, I would be uncomfortable rolling it out with less
> than 768MB for 32GB of cache. (The old rule of thumb of "10 MB for

i count 5MB/GB which works for me. squid uses no more than 65MB of space
on my 11GB cache.

> every GB of cache_dir plus cache_mem plus whatever the rest of your
> system needs" is a very good rule to follow when configuring Squid. I

"the rest of your system" is no more than 16MB unless it does more than
squid

> like to add a little RAM on top of that, just because it makes
> performance so much snappier for real world conditions.)
>
>
> >>My questions:
> >>
> >>At what point do I need to consider clustering ? (Note the above is at one
> >>single physical location.)
> >>
> >
> >
> > but 2 fast 7200 IBM IDE drives (30GB), 512 MB RAM, make mirrored 2GB
> > partition for OS, logs, small swap etc and 28GB for squid.
>
>
> This will handle about 110 reqs/sec, and about 10Mbps total throughput
> (or about 7Mbps actual uplink bandwidth) in a Linux and Squid+async i/o
> configuration. On FreeBSD with DiskD this will yield about 80-90 reqs/sec.
>
>
> > don't forget to mount -o noatime , use 1 inode/8kB and 2kB blocks in linux
> > and 8/1 blocks in *BSD.
> >
> > is you can choose system, choose *BSD (i use netbsd). linux isn't usable
> > on high load
>
> Silly anti-Linux FUD. Linux and Squid+async i/o on ReiserFS is the
> fastest Squid configuration you'll find, and our boxes configured this
> way are installed in a number of very high load environments with /no/
> stability problems. We measure our client system uptimes in months, not
> weeks or days. (Also, if more evidence is needed, we nearly matched
> Duane's FreeBSD box at the last cacheoff with approximately half the
> hardware--the results are public, along with system specs.
> http://www.measurement-factory.com )
>
> I won't tell folks to use Linux over FreeBSD...you should use what
> you're comfortable with. But don't spread misinformation, just because
> you prefer one OS over another.
> --
> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
> http://www.swelltech.com
>
Received on Thu May 10 2001 - 00:35:58 MDT