Re: [squid-users] Anything wrong with this?

Hi Nick,
high memory and scsi hard disk will run faster.
IDE wont help on speed while your box accessing the small file on disk.

At 10:37 PM 12/2/2002 -0600, Nick Lomonte wrote:
>We are an ISP with ~6k subscribers. I recently set up Squid on a test box
>to run for a day and measure how much bandwidth it saved, and surprisingly
>it cut down our internet bandwidth by about 2 megabits (out of 9mb at peak
>times).
>
>That said, we want to implement this permenantly. The response times were
>fairly slow on the test box. It was a celeron 600/256mb/20gig HD, but it
>was also running a few other things which is probably the cause of the
>slowness. It gets about 3100 requests per minute on average.
>
>Is the following machine too much/too little for our purposes?
>P4 - 1.5ghz, 512mb RAM, 120gb IDE HD. The 120gig HD will be for cache only,
>with a smaller 20g drive for the OS.
>
>Am I correct in assuming that the larger the cache storage is, the more
>bandwidth it will potentially save?
Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 21:47:35 MST