On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17.07.2012 04:21, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> >> On 7/16/2012 9:08 AM, William De Luca wrote: >>> >>> Hey All, >>> >>> I'm thinking about building a web Cache server and I was thinking >>> about getting one of those cheap'o Shuttle slim computers with the >>> dual core Atom Processor. I was just wondering if Squid Web Caching >>> will run on the Atom Processor before I invest in it? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Bill >> >> Hi, >> >> I've tested on Acer AO722 w/ AMD C-60 / FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT... as a >> local cache and it works. >> >> Waitman Gobble >> San Jose California USA > > > > Yes, the only things to be aware of are RAM requirements if your box is > slimline in that direction. > Squid default binary footprint is 6MB, but can be tuned down below 4MB by > disabling a lot of the bells and whistles. Memory cache defaults to 256MB > nowdays, but can be configured as low as zero bytes. Squid requires a few > extra MB to run transactions (averages around ~32KB per concurrent client), > so the overall slimline footprint requirements is somewhere in the order of > 16MB. The Atoms (at least some) can support plenty of RAM - the Sea Micro (now AMD) SM10000 comes with 4 GB per physical CPU, a standard DDR3 DIMM. That's about 1.5 TB in their box. Makes me wonder if Sea Micro tested large Squid (or Varnish) clusters... -- -george william herbert george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx
