I think 9.1 Gb SCSI Baracuda Seagate is available. Try 2 X 9.1
Gb. 4 Gb I think is not anymore available in the market. If you'll setup a
9.1 Gb X 2, each hardisk must be partitioned to 3 partitions. So, you'll
have 6 partitions for your cache (sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4 and sdb1, sdb2,
sdb3). The sda1 will be for swap partition.
Use squid-2.3.STABLE1.
You can download it on the http://www.squid-cache.org ftp mirrors
http://www.squid-cache.org/Mirrors/ftp-mirrors.html.
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Roi
Angeles Communications (Phils.), Inc.
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Proverbs 8:13
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Elfredy V. Cadapan wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Ryan F. Go wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm setting up a new squid server for our university here. We'll
> > be configuring it for transparent proxying from the cisco router. And
> > since it would the only one proxy server for the four campuses, it should
> > be always up and running. It will be serving ~250 req/min for now, but
> > the traffic should grow in the next few weeks.
> >
> > I got a spare computer with the specs:
> >
> > PIII 450 MHz
> > Asus P2B-S MB (w/ Adaptec AIC7890 chip?)
> > 128MB SDRAM
> > 9.1 GB Baracuda SCSI HD
> > 3c905B-TX NIC
> >
> > Any comments on the specs? Am planning to get another IDE HD as my system
> > disk and make the whole 9GB as my cache. I know i lack the RAM but i
> > really have no idea how much. Would 256 MB suffice?
>
> I've got a 4 Gb cache here, and it eats up most of 128 mb (and I don't
> even go over 100 req/min). It starts to swap when I raise the swap_size to
> 5 Gb. I'd guess 256 Mb can handle up to 8 Gb of swap, so if you're
> planning on using the whole 9 Gb as swap, you'd better get some
> more RAM.
>
> You'd also get faster performance by splitting the cache between disks
> (i.e. two 4 Gb disks, instead of one big 9 Gb).
>
> > Hmmm, is the reiserfs thing stable already? Would it create problems if i
> > use it on this machine? We usually have power problems here and i would
> > like to have the machine be up as fast as possible. Having fsck check on
> > this would take quite some time. Or is there an alternative?
>
> reiserfs (or xfs) is NOT optimized for squid use. The squid developers
> have been tossing around a SquidFS optimized for cache use, but I'm not
> sure what it's status is.
>
> If you don't want long fsck times, dunno what your options are. Use
> FreeBSD?
>
> - Elfredy Cadapan
> - Institute of Computer Science, Univ. of the Philippines at Los Banos
> - Home page : http://www.ics.uplb.edu.ph/~evc/
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