[squid-users] Reverse Proxy with Apache (LB) in front

Hi everyone,

I have a big project to create a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to
replace the Akamaï job.
I have think to Squid 2.6 (debian etch package) and Apache in reverse
proxy mode (LoadBalancing and rewrite rules to specify a squid, apply
loadfactor, ...). I have a problem to evaluate the resources needed.

I have distinguish the static (image, css, js, ...) to cache (with
static.website.tld subdomain)
All static content (with ~10 websites) is above 80Go and ~10.000 hit/s.

I would start with this minimal configuration (I have omitted the
redundancy with heartbeat)

ASCII Art :

          Internet
               |
               |
         Apache ( Reverse Proxy Mode)
         / | \
        / | \
       / | \
  Squid--Squid--Squid
      \ | /
  ligHTTPD Static server

The filesystem on squid server is ReiserFS (raid 10 with hdd SAS 15K
RPM 73Go) with 4Gb ram and intel quad core.

My questions is :

- how to suppress warning message when an object is in cache more than
one day (I don't have this message this day tomorrow if you need the
exact message)?

- I should config squid with a very large cache :

cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 51200 256 2048

and 3Gb cache memory

for you this configuration seem's to be OK ?

Thanks in advance for your response / suggest

--
Kind Regards,
Yann Verry