Robert V. Coward escreveu:
I am running into the standard "Open Source" fear at my local site. Can anyone name some major companies that use Squid. We are talking enterprise or ISP here. We currently have about 100,000 users with heavy streaming video use. Some of the management are afraid Squid will not be able to handle the load. Our planned deployment box is a 8-way, 16GB ram, 1TB (6 disks I think) server which will be running RedHat Enterprise Linux.
in my opinion 100k users are just too much to a single machine, even if it's a 'super' machine. And let's not think about machine load ... let's think on a machine crash of failure of some kind. 100k users are enough users for you to start thinking on some clustering of some kind.
i agree with Richard Hubbell ..... 100k users are just enough for you to look for some expert to analyze and build this project for you.
we're not talking of 100 or 1k users ... we're talking of 100k. 100k users on a standard (not optimized) device/system configuration will probably trash any cache solution and squid wont be an exception.
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