On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Alexandros C. Couloumbis wrote: > 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
There has not yet been any significant benchmarking of how Squid behaves on Linux 2.6. I have hoever seen some reports on performance related problems with both the vm and the threading. Running without a swap partition recommended. Before you go production I would recommend running a polygraph test to see that the box performs like expected when under long term load. > this is a production group of 1000 concurent users. the pipe > to the Internet is 20Mbit Reasonable. > 1st question: Should I go with Squid 2.5 or 3.0 ? (I plan 2.5) 2.5. Squid-3.0 is not yet ready for production which can be seen from the Squid-3.0 page <http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/> > 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 Does not really tell which one is best for Squid. What you need to measure is the seek capability on random read/writes. Regards Henrik
