On 04/11/2012, at 1:08 AM, Jack Bates <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? 64bit for sure. > > 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/
