I am building a 2x 2.8GHz P4, no HT, 4Gig RAM squid engine on a Linux 2.6 with reiser4 and wccp (Gentoo - everything from source) no auth
this is a production group of 1000 concurent users. the pipe to the Internet is 20Mbit
1st question: Should I go with Squid 2.5 or 3.0 ? (I plan 2.5)
2nd question: there are 4 x 80Gig 7200RPM, 8Mb cache ATA disks and one SCSI Raid partition of 120Gig
I will use 70% for disk cache data with reiser4. the rest 30% will be empty
ATA disks score 55 on hdparm -t while the raid partition goes up to 110
as far as performance, shoud I use only the ATA disks or the ATA along with the scsi raid partition? How about the scsi raid partition solo (1 physical disk for squid). I am not sure squid will handle well the speed difference between the ATA and the scsi raid partition
final question: thoughts about squid with clamav plugin from the point of functionality, resources etc...
any input, pointers is always of great value! please cc: alex_at_tee.gr
Best Regards,
-- Alexandros C. Couloumbis Network Operations Center Technical Chamber of Greece
