On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > Our planned deployment box is a 8-way, 16GB ram, 1TB (6 disks >> > I think) server which will be running RedHat Enterprise Linux. > > There's been some recent list discussions about how squid uses CPU - you'd be much better off with 4 load balanced dual core boxes than one 8 core box. RAM is cheap so put 16gig in all four :-) Just make sure you install the 64 bit kernel. > I would have to second that, its why google is so fast they have many small servers not one big one. but for the price of dual core machines i think you can afford more then 4 why not go with 8 dual core machines the trouble is be careful with how you handle the 1 Terabyte drive...if you mount it from across the lan it could be a bottleneck.
