[squid-users] Performance question

Hi folks,

we are having some kind of performance problem here and I want to ask
you guys for advice.

We are a school with 1200 students, and 200 pc's running squid +
Dansguardian as proxying service. The http requests tend to be slow at
peak moments and I am wondering if I could resolv this by changing the
setup.

Currently we have a celeron 900 pc with 1 ATA disk acting as a proxy.
A nearby factory donated an old dual P2-300 server with 7 SCSI disks
4GB each. I read that performance of squid increases with every disk
you add, so will the switch to this slower (cpu wise) system be
beneficial to us, ro should I stick to the celeron 900 and add some
more RAM ?

The celeron has 256MB RAM, the donated server has 512MB RAM.

Are there ways to benchmark squid in an easy way ?

Thanks,

Pieterjan Heyse
 

ICT Coördintor KSGWL - Scheppersinstituut
Scheppersinstituut Wetteren
Cooppallaan 128
9230 Wetteren
Tel: 09 3692072
Fax: 09 3661348
mailto:pieterjan.heyse@scheppers-wetteren.be

 
Received on Fri Jun 17 2005 - 06:01:51 MDT