RE: [squid-users] [Squid-Users] Specifications for HW per no of users

I do not understand you. It does not depend on the amount of users, but on
the bandwith they use, or, better, on the number of HTTP requests. I am in a
corporate environment with high load through 500 100Mb LAN users, so i do
not have knowledge about the habits of your users (i am not an ISP).

Normal processor, > 1 GHz, (Squid does not benefit from ultra high speed
processors)
1 drive for OS
1 or 2 drives for cache, SCSI, low latency, max 1/2 of the size for cache,
1/2 empty
as much memory as you can afford
   (30 GB cache_dir, 64 MB cache_mem = 512 MB
    60 GB cache_dir, 128 MB cache_mem = 1 GB)

This is a near high performance cache.

Hermann

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth La Grange [mailto:gareth@ipnoc.co.za]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:31 PM
> To: Hermann Strassner
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] [Squid-Users] Specifications for HW per no of
> users
>
>
> Hi Hermann,
>
> Our average connections on the box at this stage (According to
> ip_conntrack), is at approx 6k around there. That is for 8k users.
> 60% of the users are on 64k Dial Ups, 25% are Lan and 15% are Dial up.
> Does that help at all?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hermann Strassner [mailto:hermann.strassner@hama.de]
> Sent: 12 April 2002 01:17
> To: Squid Mailinglist
> Subject: RE: [squid-users] [Squid-Users] Specifications for HW per no of
> users
>
>
> > I have looked for an answer for this, but can not seem to get the
> > information that I am looking for. Websites and User forums do
> not seem to
> > help. I am looking for what would be the recommended hardware
> > requirements /
> > specifications for a server running squid, nothing else, per amount of
> > users. I noticed that a lot of sites said throw plenty of
> physical memory
> > and stuff, but apart from that, not much is said on the subject.
> > So, if any of you have the time, please could you give me your
> > advice on the
> > subject.
> >
> > What I am looking for is the following:
> >
> > For 1k users, 4k users and 8k users, please could you give me
> > your advice on
> > the following.
> >
> > CPU Speed and number:
> > Amount of physical memory:
> > Swap file size according to memory:
> > Cache dir setup. I.e., on a 40Gig drive, would you recommend 2
> cache dir's
> > or one:
> > What FS would you run on the cache dir:
>
> There are high speed users and low speed users, dialup users, lan
> users, ...
> Nobody can say from the amount of users.
>
> How many HTTP requests/hour will they make?
>
> Hermann
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 06:26:33 MDT