Does anyone have any OS tips for Sparc/Solaris? (preferably 8).
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zen <zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Users.
> i'm planning to build a proxy server and it will be serving 10k of
> users/clients,
> it's a AMD X2 3800 AM2 and currently installed RAM are 4Gigs, and 2
> SATA HDD 300GB
> and running FreeBSD 6.2STABLE am64 build.
> i would like to ask for guidance how to build and optimized this proxy
> server ( OS base or Squid base )
> kindly one of you share the tips/tricks regarding this problems.
>
Hi Zen,
Do you want to run Squid in transparent mode? If so, which firewall
(ipfw/pf/ipf) will you be using?
Try to do download the source package and compile it manually rather than
using FreeBSD's ports.
You can using the following compilation options:
- --bindir=/usr/local/sbin \
- --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/squid \
- --datadir=/usr/local/etc/squid \
- --libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/squid \
- --localstatedir=/usr/local/squid \
- --enable-removal-policies=heap,lru \
- --enable-async-io \
- --enable-storeio=diskd,aufs,coss,ufs,null \
- --enable-time-hack \
- --enable-snmp \
- --enable-kqueue \
- --with-large-files \
- --prefix=/usr/local \
- --disable-ident-lookups
For full compilation options, see:
#~ ./configure --help | less
Also, try to use the Squid-2.6 version. It's quite stable and extremely CPU
friendly.
In your Kernel, you can use the following options:
options SMP
options SHMSEG=128
options SHMMNI=256
options SHMMAX=33554432 # max shared memory segment size (bytes)
options SHMALL=16384 # max amount of shared memory (pages)
options MSGMNB=16384 # max # of bytes in a queue
options MSGMNI=48 # number of message queue identifiers
options MSGSEG=768 # number of message segments
options MSGSSZ=64 # size of a message segment
options MSGTQL=4096 # max messages in system
options IPFIREWALL #Only for IPFW firewall
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #Only for IPFW enable logging to
syslogd(8)
options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD #Only for IPFW enable transparent
proxy support
For some optimization and also since your users/clients base is about
10000, you might want to try the following values.
/boot/loader.conf:
kern.maxusers=0
kern.ipc.nmbclusters=65536
kern.maxfiles=16384
kern.maxproc=8192
kern.ipc.somaxconn: 8192
kern.ipc.maxsockets=16384
/etc/sysctl.conf:
# TCP/IP optimization
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65535
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65535
kern.maxfilesperproc=8192
For squid.conf:
cache_effective_user nobody
cache_effective_group nobody
cache_mem 128 MB
cache_swap_low 90
cache_swap_high 98
http_port 3128 transparent # Only if you want Squid to run transparently
maximum_object_size 131072 KB
maximum_object_size_in_memory 16 KB
tcp_recv_bufsize 65535 bytes
ipcache_size 4096
fqdncache_size 4096
emulate_httpd_log on
client_persistent_connections off
half_closed_clients off
cache_dir diskd /cache1 100000 64 512 Q1=72 Q2=64
cache_dir diskd /cache2 100000 64 512 Q1=72 Q2=64
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY
negative_dns_ttl 2 minutes
#Default pattern is good enough
refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
Also regarding DISKD storage system, see the great FAQ below:
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/CyclicObjectStorageSystem
Even though, it is quite outdated, it offers enough insight about DiskD and
FreeBSD in general.
Note: This values should normally work but what works for me does not
necessarily mean that it will work for all.
Also I welcome any suggestions and feedback for the above mentioned values
of mine. I may have miss something myself.
Thanking you...
>
> TIA
>
> Zen
>
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With best regards and good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Tek Bahadur Limbu
