On Fri, Jun 06, 2008, Brodsky, Jared S. wrote:
> Getting ready to roll out a squid server in my organization after doing
> about a month of testing on it on a virtual machine in VMware server.
> Is running squid in a virtual environment recommended, or is having a
> dedicated box a safer way to go? I'll have about 30 users that hit
> YouTube and other streaming media sites throughout the day and I am
> hoping to cache a lot of it since many watch the same ones more than
> once. I do, however have a box set aside that I can use which is a P4 3
> Ghz w/ 1GB ram and was going to drop in two 10,000 RPM drives for the
> cache. I know that the squid wiki says JBOD is preferable, however is
> RAID 0 a bad way to go?
RAID 0 is fine; losing a disk will have exactly the results that losing one
JBOD disk will have in Squid at the moment.
The best way to know is to test it out. I ran Squid/Linux under VMWare ESX
3.mumble a while ago for a small LAN (~150 users) w/ NTLM authentication and
besides the clock drift issues, things ran quite fine.
YMMV,
Adrian
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