Re: [squid-users] Squid in the Enterpise

I agree. But we have infrastructure problems that really push hard to make it a single ip. We'll be doing WCCP and standard proxy. But a large number of the clients have hardcoded proxy ips and make it prohibitive to change it to a new address. I want to have a cluster of boxes spread horizontally across the network, but I have what I have.

R

--- On Thu, 7/17/08, jason bronson <jasonbronson_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> From: jason bronson <jasonbronson_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid in the Enterpise
> To: "Adam Carter" <Adam.Carter_at_optus.com.au>
> Cc: "squid-users_at_squid-cache.org" <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
> Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:33 PM
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Adam Carter
> <Adam.Carter_at_optus.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> > Our planned deployment box is a 8-way, 16GB
> ram, 1TB (6 disks
> >> > I think) server which will be running RedHat
> Enterprise Linux.
> >
> > There's been some recent list discussions about
> how squid uses CPU - you'd be much better off with 4
> load balanced dual core boxes than one 8 core box. RAM is
> cheap so put 16gig in all four :-) Just make sure you
> install the 64 bit kernel.
> >
>
>
>
> I would have to second that, its why google is so fast they
> have many
> small servers not one big one. but for the price of dual
> core machines
> i think you can afford more then 4 why not go with 8 dual
> core
> machines the trouble is be careful with how you handle the
> 1 Terabyte
> drive...if you mount it from across the lan it could be a
> bottleneck.
Received on Fri Jul 18 2008 - 12:04:04 MDT