Thanks, I think 1 gig of ram will probably suffice. My hit ratio is document hit rate. I was not sure where to find the byte rate in cache manager.
Gary ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:31:45 +0100 >Gary Hostetler wrote: > >> Is this desirable if I had 2 different hard drives >> to configure squid to use both? > >Generally yes. > >Two drives can sustain a significantly higher request rate than a single >drive. > >> Is this done with squid.conf and then with squid -Z? > >yes. > >> I'm getting ready to order ram -I'm at 256MB- and I can >> go to either 1 gig or 2 gigs. My cache size is set at 25 >> gigs but in 3 days they have only consumed about a gig. >> I plan on adding more users. > >Building for more than about 7 days of cache is mostly a waste of >resources. > >You should size the amount of drives in relation to the request rate you >need to sustain, and the total size of your cache to around 7 days or as >much as you can afford to spend on memory.. > >Note: there is a bunch of other issues when you start going above ca >1.5GB of memory if you are using a 32bit CPU. > >> Finally, my hit rate is about 35%. Is that about normal? > >Byte or document hit rate? > >Regards >Henrik >
