Re: [squid-users] Hardware configuration for Squid that can handle 100 - 200 Mbps

From: Gavin McCullagh <gavin.mccullagh_at_gcd.ie>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:46:02 +0100

Hi,

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> Whereas I have two caches. One has an average object size of 64KB the
> other 128KB. However people from large ISPs are still posting ~10KB avg
> object sizes in their stats.

Fair enough. I suppose our students are quite into their assorted video
sites which must drag things up. That

>> We have an 800GB cache (2x400GB on two 1TB disks) and although there's 8GB
>> of ram, it's on a 32-bit operating system (so squid's process size can't go
>> above 3GB). The above value suggests the indexes take up about 1GB of RAM.
>> We have a 1GB memory cache and all runs fine without swapping so the index
>> must be fitting into 2GB.
>
> Its a 4095 MB cap on 32-bit. (4 GB minus 1 KB).

It seems I'm wrong again. Bah! Thanks for the correction :-)

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Gavin
Received on Fri Aug 28 2009 - 08:46:18 MDT

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