> Hey, > > We are working on our hardware requirements and am looking for some > feedback. Please let me know what you think: > > We currently are planing on two servers being available behind an LVS > router. These two servers will speak with a squid instance at each > location so some form of peering can be used. > > 3. How do these hardware requirements look, per server: > - 4 drives for squid cache, hardware raid stripped > - 4ms seek time, 73GB of space =~ 294GB of cache available > - Looking to use at least 150GB of cache per server > - 8GB of RAM > - Two dual core or two quad core 3.0Ghz processors. > > Any feedback is appreciated > Sounds like overkill. What OS are you planning on using? Have a look here: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid Cheers Frog
