Hi, sorry my message was incomplete.
Depends on what is purpose of the proxy.
When in production the proxies will serve about 3000 users on a 200mbit internet connection that runs at full speed during several hours daily. Use of proxy is not mandatory at the moment, users can disable it.
I want to save bandwidth, if possible, and give quicker answers when possible.
I also want/need to block direct access to the internet by the clients, so that all traffic is scanned for malware.
To do this I currently have an antivirus/malware/url scanner as upstream proxy (cache_peer). This commercial product also support ICAP... is it better ?
In squid SMP you can try to use ROCK store that stores small objects in order to use SMP and cache_dir together.
I compiled ROCK but is it mature enough to be used in production servers ?
I will locate infos on how to enable squid SMP
If you want to measure the RAID1 efficiency feel free. Dont rush into SSD since it's nice but you now have the specific hardware that can work fine just like that. What Raid are you using?? HW or SW or LVM?
It's HW raid, and it is quick :-)
I assume that you are not only trying to save couple small pieces of bandwidth??
It's one of the things I want to do since bandwidth is full.... Thanks
