My most recent setup was on an old Compaq desktop server 1100mhz, 1gb RAM (not sure of speed) with ~30gb cache on 10k rpm SCSI disks. Squid was auth-ing against Samba using the winbind helper. No AV, but dansguardian was used for content filtering. Performance was adequate for ~100 users. Josh On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Richard Hubbell <richard_hubbe11@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: Squid requirements >> To: "Chris Robertson" <crobertson@xxxxxxx> >> Cc: "Squid Users" <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 9:28 AM >> What we're really missing is a bunch of "hardware >> x, config y, testing >> z, results a, b, c." TMF used to have some stuff up >> for older hardware >> but there's just nothing recent to use as a measuring >> stick.. >> > > The problem is that there's so much disparate technology out there. > multi-core cpus, all kinds of different memory, all kinds of different disk technologies, different filesystems, different OS, different kernels, and on and on. It's hard to get useful measuring sticks. > > I still think it's a useful pursuit. But I think that the reasons above make people less inclined to do it. > > spec.org tries to level the field, if someone concocted a level field and made it easy for people to do, then we'd see more results. > > > >
