We're looking to upgrade our Apache Traffic Server hardware, here at a
village in rural East Africa [1], and I wonder if other Traffic Server
users or developers have any input or advice?
We're currently running Traffic Server on a dedicated EeeBox B202
machine, with an Intel Atom N270 processor (32-bit) and 1 GB of RAM, and
recently we had some trouble with integer overflow and running out of
memory, when we connected a 3 TB drive. We're now experimenting with
different values of proxy.config.cache.min_average_object_size and
proxy.config.cache.ram_cache.size, to work around this (thanks a lot
James Peach for your support with this, I will update TS-1528 with the
results), but Traffic Server performance is predictably bad, and in the
long term we probably want to upgrade to 64-bit hardware with at least 4
GB of RAM?
We have a 1 Mbps internet connection, and about 300 computers. Are there
any additional specs we should consider when shopping for new hardware?
A nice thing about the EeeBox is that we have a bunch of spare units on
hand. When hardware breaks, there isn't always the technical capacity to
open, diagnose, and repair it, or replacement parts aren't cost
effective, or the repaired equipment works unreliably. So finding new
hardware that's also cheap, integrated, and widely available would be
ideal. Low(ish) power consumption would be a bonus.
[1] http://asyv.org/
- Hardware advice for small site in East Africa Jack Bates
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