On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Alfonso Correas wrote:
> We need some kind of advice, because a customer has requested us a big
> behemoth of Squid configuration. They requested a configuration capable
> of handling +800Hits/second on peak times.
>
> This is the hw, that we think right.
>
> Pentium II 400Mhz.
> Intel 440BX motherboard.
> 512Mb SDRAM.
> DPT PM2144UW in RAID-5.
> Quantum Atlas II 9.1Gb UW (5+1) in RAID cabinet.
> DEC 21140 PCI 100Base-T LAN card (2).
>
> OS: Linux/FreeBSD¿?
>
> We are experimenting with a dual LAN card to handle the incoming
> requests via one interface and forward the requests via other interface,
> to alleviate the interface congestion.
>
> Can be possible to disable logging to alleviate the overhead rather than
> writing in other disk? What about performance tricks ala' NNTP servers?
Why one machine? Seems the easy way to spread the load and has the added
benefit of making sure that you don't have a single point of failure.
Chris
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