On Sat, Jun 07, 2008, Brodsky, Jared S. wrote: > In my instance it is not an ESX server but rather their free offering. When I did my testing I did it on my desktop with was a P4 w 3GB ram and I saw a hit of 25-30 percent usage with 6 users and myself working on the desktop. Right. VMWare server will perform slightly less normally and suck if you're doing lots of IO. Adrian > -- > Jared Brodsky > 212.647.6303 > Sent via Blackberry. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:44:58 > To:"Brodsky, Jared S." <JaredB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc:squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Squid Performance, VMware vs Physical Machine > > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008, Brodsky, Jared S. wrote: > > Getting ready to roll out a squid server in my organization after doing > > about a month of testing on it on a virtual machine in VMware server. > > Is running squid in a virtual environment recommended, or is having a > > dedicated box a safer way to go? I'll have about 30 users that hit > > YouTube and other streaming media sites throughout the day and I am > > hoping to cache a lot of it since many watch the same ones more than > > once. I do, however have a box set aside that I can use which is a P4 3 > > Ghz w/ 1GB ram and was going to drop in two 10,000 RPM drives for the > > cache. I know that the squid wiki says JBOD is preferable, however is > > RAID 0 a bad way to go? > > RAID 0 is fine; losing a disk will have exactly the results that losing one > JBOD disk will have in Squid at the moment. > > The best way to know is to test it out. I ran Squid/Linux under VMWare ESX > 3.mumble a while ago for a small LAN (~150 users) w/ NTLM authentication and > besides the clock drift issues, things ran quite fine. > > YMMV, > > > > Adrian > > -- > - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - > - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
