We run Traffic Server on SSD drives (64bit CENTOS) for my customer - 8,000 computers behind a couple of Traffic Server proxies - no problem with performance.
Damian Mendoza Excelerate Software, Inc. 949 218-3337 Ask me how to "Monetize your WebSite and Search experience" to generate money for your organization. -----Original Message----- From: Jack Bates [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 1:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Hardware advice for small site in East Africa 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/
