On 01.02.2012 11:26, cielo rosso wrote:
Hi,
I have read the information at
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid and I'm wondering what's
the average number of hard drives and the amount of physical memory
that people have in their setup.
Average? of all 300K+ squid installations around the world? Getting
that data is rather difficult and not all that useful.
0-4 HDD work well, beyond 4 you get into reduced economies of scale
regarding disk controller overheads and/or other factors. Still an
upward performance trend AFAIK, but reducing in gain with each drive
added.
We'll use Squid as a reverse proxy to fence off DDoS against our
website. We have a few Linux machines which have 16G of memory and
one
hard drive. Of course the more memory I can get and the more hard
drives the better, but I'm wondering what's people's experience with
their setup.
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks
Also, somebody suggested to me to use SATA rather then SCSI. Any
thoughts about that?
Faster the better of course. Beyond that it is a matter of budget
rather than "best". Squid uses the OS APIs to access disks and is rather
agnostic as to their types.
Amos
