Re: Hardware for large organization

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 20:30:48 +0200

Jeff Beck wrote:

> I'm curious as to what kind of hardware we need for this proxy server.
> I'm thinking of getting a Dell Poweredge with dual 450's and 1/2 to 1
> gig of ram, and 20 gigs of raid5, scsi storage.

Be warned that the way Squid uses the filesystem kills raid5 performance
(mostly random small writes).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Suqid hacker
Received on Fri Aug 06 1999 - 12:27:14 MDT

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