2009/6/30 Ronan Lucio <listas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Could you tell what hardware do you use? > Reading Squid-Guide > (http://www.deckle.co.za/squid-users-guide/Installing_Squid) it says Squid > isn't CPU intensive, says a multiprocessor machines would not increase speed > dramatically. > Its a dual quad core amd of some sort. Squid is CPU intensive but currently only uses 1 CPU for the main application. You'll get benefits from having multi-core machines but only for offloading network and disk processing onto them. > I know this docs is so old, but it talks about machines like a Pentium 133 > with 128 Mb RAM. > > So initially I was thinking in Dual QuadCore + 4Gb RAM. Now I'm thinking in > a Single QuadCore + 2Gb. Another Squid rule - "as much RAM as possible." > What do you think about that? > > I think a throughput like yours would be great for me. > > Another question: How many disks do you use? > In other words: Do I need some special disk strategy to achieve such a > throughput? Like anything, your best bet is to test and document the performance. In this case, its "lots of disk on a sensible RAID controller, but no RAID." I wasn't given time to benchmark RAID vs non-RAID but in this particular workload, RAID has never ever been faster in my testing in cases other than the RAID card itself being buggy. Others have a differing opinion. Adrian
