Re: [squid-users] Performance Problem

From: Robin Stevens <robin.stevens@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:33:52 +0100

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:07:01AM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 02:56:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
> > To: Sven Eisenhauer <sven.eisenhauer@danet.de>
> > Cc: Squid-users <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Performance Problem
> >
> > > But RAM for the Sparc is very expensive.
> >
> > 1GB is enough. doesn't normal ECC DIMMs work?
 
Pushing it slightly, I'd say. With a cache size of 100GB I'm using just
over a gigabyte of RAM for the squid process. 1.5GB to 2GB is probably
more realistic.

> Crucial have a nice page for checking compatible ram types that seems
> to cover most suns:
>
> http://www.crucial.com/UK/store/listProductLine.asp?mfr=Sun&x=8&y=7

What I'm never sure of with buying server RAM from third parties is how it
affects the warranty. Comparing for instance official Dell prices and
Crucial prices, what do I get for paying 6 times as much to Dell? :-)

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