Hi Damian and thanks! Besides 64-bit and SSD drives, are there any other
specs that you'd advise when shopping for new hardware for Traffic Server?
Can you tell me a bit more about your machines? Did you build them from
parts, or are they particular systems? Ideally we're looking for
hardware that's cheap, integrated, and widely available, but also has
specs appropriate for running Traffic Server at a small site.
On 04/11/12 07:37 AM, Damian Mendoza wrote:
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
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-----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/
