Hi Carols, Have you been able to determine that Squid is actually making use of both processors? Do you have other applications running on the same box?
Ralph ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:42 PM Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid versus Microsoft ISA > Hi !!! > > About your statement ... > > > Except that with ISA you can use a SMP box. The 2 products have vastly > > different hardware requirements, if you buy/build a box for squid it > > will be a 1 CPU box, which would not be a good choice for ISA. > > We are using Squid over Red Hat Linux here in a SMP box, and it is running > fine. Is is a IBM box with two CPUs and 1 GB of memory (seen as four CPUs by > the OS due to some hardware feature) and it is dealing with 2200 users, > handling something like 2gig of throughput. > > By using Squid you can also benefit from other open source/free software > produtcs, like contentfiltering (DansGuardian, Poesia-filter), controlling > the amount of user traffic per time period (Squid2Mysql), and so on. > > Squid also has a very nice feature called "delay pools", that allows you to > control bandwidth usage based on user, user groups, file extension, etc... > I don�t know if MS ISA has something like that. > > Regards, > Carlos. > > _________________________________________________________ > Voce quer um iGMail protegido contra v�rus e spams? > Clique aqui: http://www.igmailseguro.ig.com.br > Ofertas imperd�veis! Link: http://www.americanas.com.br/ig/ >
