Re: [squid-users] Squid Performance, VMware vs Physical Machine

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008, Brodsky, Jared S. wrote:
> In my instance it is not an ESX server but rather their free offering. When I did my testing I did it on my desktop with was a P4 w 3GB ram and I saw a hit of 25-30 percent usage with 6 users and myself working on the desktop.

Right. VMWare server will perform slightly less normally and suck if you're doing lots
of IO.

Adrian

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_creative.net.au>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:44:58
> To:"Brodsky, Jared S." <JaredB_at_greatertalent.com>
> Cc:squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Performance, VMware vs Physical Machine
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>
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008, Brodsky, Jared S. wrote:
> > Getting ready to roll out a squid server in my organization after doing
> > about a month of testing on it on a virtual machine in VMware server.
> > Is running squid in a virtual environment recommended, or is having a
> > dedicated box a safer way to go? I'll have about 30 users that hit
> > YouTube and other streaming media sites throughout the day and I am
> > hoping to cache a lot of it since many watch the same ones more than
> > once. I do, however have a box set aside that I can use which is a P4 3
> > Ghz w/ 1GB ram and was going to drop in two 10,000 RPM drives for the
> > cache. I know that the squid wiki says JBOD is preferable, however is
> > RAID 0 a bad way to go?
>
> RAID 0 is fine; losing a disk will have exactly the results that losing one
> JBOD disk will have in Squid at the moment.
>
> The best way to know is to test it out. I ran Squid/Linux under VMWare ESX
> 3.mumble a while ago for a small LAN (~150 users) w/ NTLM authentication and
> besides the clock drift issues, things ran quite fine.
>
> YMMV,
>
>
>
> Adrian
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