RE: [squid-users] Hardware spec -- opinions?

> Looking at upgrading things for our Squid servers. What's the groups
> opinion on the DELL PE 1550 2U server? I'm looking at 1GB
> RAM, dual 15k RPM
> 18.2GB drives with hdw RAID-0 via the PERC3 controller with
> 128MB cache, and
> dual 1Ghz PIII's. I'm currently running Linux 2.2.19 but considering
> putting BSD on the new servers, I'm not happy with the memory
> mgmt of the
> Linux and our BSD boxes run much cleaner.

I'm not sure about the raid0 thing, but it is up to snuff.
(I am serving 2600 users on a dual P3/450 1Gb RAM Linux).

> We'll be buying two units to support about 2000 users. I'd
> appreciate any
> opinons/info.

I think you'll have no problems.
The second processor is a tad wasted though.

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	/kinkie