I agree. But we have infrastructure problems that really push hard to make it a single ip. We'll be doing WCCP and standard proxy. But a large number of the clients have hardcoded proxy ips and make it prohibitive to change it to a new address. I want to have a cluster of boxes spread horizontally across the network, but I have what I have. R --- On Thu, 7/17/08, jason bronson <jasonbronson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: jason bronson <jasonbronson@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Squid in the Enterpise > To: "Adam Carter" <Adam.Carter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:33 PM > 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.
