Re: [squid-users] Large-scale Reverse Proxy for serving images FAST

Thanks Chris & Amos for your comments thus far.

I've finally located a machine I can place this "Memory-only" squid on. I've got a 32GB, AMD 64-bit, blah blah.

Anyway, since I'm a bit of a linux n00b, I was asking the OS question even after having read the wiki and postings about this topic. For me, the OS i use doesn't matter from a comfortability/familiarity standpoint, as it's all fairly new to me anyway. The only requirements are that it's 64-bit and will work with my 32GB of RAM.

I was thinking of using fedora, centOS, or ubuntu 64-bit editions. What do you think will be the easiest OS to compile & run a 64-bit version of Squid on?

That leads me to my next question... How DO I compile or get a binary of 64-bit squid 3.0 stable13? The few source and binaries i've seen don't differentiate between 32 & 64. I've dowmloaded the 3.0 Stable13 tar.gz, but I have no idea how to go about compiling it to run as 64-bit.

Once I know this, I think i'll be all set.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks all!!

David

--- On Tue, 3/17/09, Chris Robertson <crobertson_at_gci.net> wrote:

> From: Chris Robertson <crobertson_at_gci.net>
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Large-scale Reverse Proxy for serving images FAST
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Received: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 1:21 PM
> David Tosoff wrote:
> > OK. Thanks Amos.
> >
> > Changing up the icp_port to a unique for each instance
> worked. I should have thought about that as all instances
> were on the same host (localhost/127.0.0.1) w/ the same
> port... duhh.
> >
> > So, I have a few other questions then: We're going
> to scale this up to a single-machine single-instance of 64
> linux and 64 squid 3.0 --
> > - What OS would you personally recommend running
> Squid 3.x on for best performance?
> >
>
> This space intentionally left blank.
>
> > - Is there no limit to the cache_mem we can use in
> squid 3? I'd be working with about 64GB of memory in
> this machine.
> >
>
> Of course there's a limit. You just aren't likely
> to hit it with the hardware you are using. Of course, as of
> Q3 2007 here's the official answer:
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200709/0559.html
>
> > - Can you elaborate on "heap replacement/garbage
> policy"??
> >
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache_replacement_policy/
> and
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/memory_replacement_policy/
> (The second link references the first, but would be the more
> relevant directive if you are going to be using a
> memory-only Squid).
>
> > - Any other options to watch for, for optimizing
> memory cache usage?
> >
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/memory_pools_limit/
>
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > David
> >
>
> Chris

      __________________________________________________________________
Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now
http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
Received on Wed Apr 01 2009 - 18:49:40 MDT