Re: [squid-users] Recommend for hardware configurations

On tor, 2008-07-03 at 22:11 +0800, Roy M. wrote:
> > Squid uses only one core, so rather Dual core than Quad...

> But will it help if I am using external redirector? (Currently I don't
> but maybe later)

url rewriters generally do not use a lot of CPU.

> If I only have 2 slots of disks, should I use both disks as cache, or
> use one for system, and the other one for cache? (E.g. reduce
> read/write for system disk => improve realiablitiy)

Depends on the I/O load you expect. But yes, it's often a good idea to
have the cache separate from OS + logs..

Regards
Henrik