4 year old Dual Core Servers.. Whitebox Intel servers with Intel Motherboards, 8GB of memory - We have run 8,000 workstations on one Traffic Server proxy at times. We could not do that with Squid as it was limited to 2,000 workstations performace peeked.
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: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 11:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hardware advice for small site in East Africa 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 > 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/
