[squid-users] Re:Re: [squid-users] What hardware should Squid have?

Hi, Michael!

8,000 user is for our university.

I have two questions about your reply,

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1. What means
"I'd put 2GB into a motherboard than can take 4"
in your reply?

4 of what?
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2. I am puzzled at,
> So 4 of them set you back $8K or buck a user and give you 640 Gb of
> cache with room to grow if the load on the boxes is light enough."

What means "4 of them set you back $8K"?
What is "them" stands for?
What means "buck a user and give you 640 Gb"?
Can you give me a simple explanation?
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Cheers,
Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael R. Wayne
To: maillist151@sohu.com
Subject: Re: [squid-users] What hardware should Squid have?
Sent: Fri Jul 12 23:12:25 CST 2002

> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:42:24PM +0800, maillist151@sohu.com wrote:
> >
> > I want to use Squid to server for a network
> > that has about 8000 users. (I use NCSA auth method.)
> >
> > How many RAM and disk space should I have?
> > What is the recommended hardware configuration?
>
> Depends a lot on how hard those 8000 users push the net.
>
> You are going to get people telling you all kinds of high end solutions,
> that's really not the answer. Think cheap in quantity.
>
> You want a bunch (likely 4) of boxes sharing the load.
>
> Don't waste your $$ on multi processors.
>
> Squid wants RAM. Lots & lots of RAM.
>
> I'd put 2GB into a motherboard than can take 4. Use about a 1GHz
> processor (price point). 2 fast IDE (yes, IDE not SCSI) drives
> for the cache with 80GB allocated to cache on each. 1 more drive
> for boot, OS & access.log (each of those drives on a seperate
> controller, you can use a motherboard w/ 4 IDE controllers).
>
> So, you have a fairly cheap box there (quick guess ~$2000 including
> the rack mount).
>
> So 4 of them set you back $8K or buck a user and give you 640 Gb of
> cache with room to grow if the load on the boxes is light enough.
>
> Make them siblings, have some spare parts on hand in case of failure
> and you are set.
>
> // //
Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 20:42:28 MDT