hi Kevin Thanks for your reply On 5/12/05, Kevin <kkadow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/10/05, Slacker Ali <slacker10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > we are going to order new machine for cache/proxy server "squid" we > > are already running cache servers all on Intel plateform > > Given your limited performance needs, I would suggest > sticking with Intel processors, putting your money towards > more RAM, faster disks, or building two identical load-balanced > caches. Agreed > > > > This time we want to give a try to AMD processor, what you ppl things > > which processor would be benfiical > > 1) Athlon 32bit or 64bit? > > 2) opetron ? > > I far i can understand, I don't think 64 bit will significantly > > improve performance for cache/proxy servers. > > I would tend to agree, but it'd be an interesting benchmark > to try if you have the time and hardware to spare. heh tough budget for hardware ;) > > > > users to support 250 > > pipe to internet : 2 mbit > > > > users are dynamic not a corporate users, but dialup users. > > Given these limitations on the maximum total and per-user > throughput, you could almost certainly get away with building > on an old (circa 1998) 200Mhz Celeron desktop PC with IDE. > > The limiting factor is going to the dialup modem hop to the > end user. In this sort of case, you might want to consider > deploying an optimizing proxy, akin to Juno's SpeedBand(tm) > and similar buzzword-compliant offerings. > > > > I will appreciate if someone using AMD gimme suggestions which... > > processor to select > > + ram (3 gb would be enough?) > > Yes, 3GB should be more than sufficient, even for ten times your > userbase and bandwidth. right, > > > > + 3 x 36 gb (sata)? > > One drive dedicated to the OS, a second drive for cache_dir, > a third for squid logs? Or a hardware RAID array? actaully to achieve good through put ;) one for OS , and two for cache_dir > > > + mobo > > Your choice of motherboard is going to be strongly dependent on > the one factor you don't mention in this message- the OS. my first choice would be ofcourse nothing but slackware > > Are you running Squid on OpenBSD? Solaris? FreeeBSD? second choice "freebsd" > Some other Unix-like operating system?;) > > For example, if you are going to run a Dual AMD64 machine > under OpenBSD 3.7 (due out May 19, 2005), then you would > want to ask about motherboards on an OpenBSD mailing list. > > If you were to choose Solaris, your only supported choices would > be motherboards listed on Sun's official supported hardware list. > > > Kevin Kadow > regards
