RE: Squid on IDE

Hi,

I am using squid 2.0.PATCH2 very successfully on a pentium-pro-200 with 3
E-IDE harddisk of 6Gig, running RedHat Linux and 256Mb. I think your problem
is more the Internal memory and linux swapping than anything else. I am
serving around 300-700 simultaneous users with the load spread over 2 of
these babies...

Nowadays these EIDE drives are performance-wise more than adequate to handle
a load of 500+ simultaneous users...

My suggestion is to upgrade your memory first to at least 192Mb. If you then
still have problems with the speed then think about SCSI... And spread the
load over various disks will help as well.

Upgrade also to the latest squid. It has quite some performance
improvements...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike.Richards [mailto:mike.richards@bscclab.bls.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 1998 12:03 AM
> To: lnx-security@airnet.com.br
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: Squid on IDE
>
>
> Gustavo,
> DO NOT USE IDE for heavy disk IO application servers, e.g. Sun Ultra 10,
> it will/does not perform anywhere near SCSI.....
> Mike
>
> > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 13:01:45 -0200
> > To: squid-users@ircache.net
> > From: Gustavo Aguiar <lnx-security@airnet.com.br>
> > Subject: Squid on IDE
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I have squid 1.22 installed in alinux whith: 49Mb RAM and
> 4.3GB IDE HD.
> > First I thought that squit was going to work just fine but know
> I can see
> > that my conection whith squid is VERY slow. I can download a simple page
> > faster with my backbone than squid.
> > I think this is the IDE HD problem (and memory too). Do I
> have to use
> SCSI
> > to work better? Did anyone had problems with IDE HD's and
> little memory??
> >
> > Thank's in advance,
> > Gustavo Aguiar
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Fri Oct 23 1998 - 20:36:46 MDT