RE: [squid-users] cache hardware specification

> lots of fast drives - i think that size is less important than the
> number, since squid seems generally i/o bound in my
> experience. my squid
> box (p2-333 w/7 9GB 10K U2 scsi drives) handles about 1GB a day of
> traffic with the cpu load rarely going over 10%. of course, higher
> volume sites might need more processing power, but i'd spend
> my money on
> lots of scsi or ssa drives and a couple of controllers to spread the
> i/o. and use diskd if you're running on freebsd. :)

My box (single P2/450) with 6 9GB 7.2Krpm U2SCSI drives does 30 Gb/day,
with the CPU constantly over 85% during peak hours.

If this is the kind of load you're having, get an AthlonXP with 2-3 gigs
of RAM, and lots of 10krpm spindles. I figure that with such a
configuration you could double my traffic, maybe triple it.

-- 
	/kinkie