Re: [squid-users] Recommend for hardware configurations

From: leongmzlist <leongmzlist_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:22:37 -0700

The cpu doesn't do any IO, it's WAITING for the disk most of the
time. If you want fast squid performance, CPU speed/count is
irrelevant; get more disks and ram. When I mean more disk, I mean
more spindles. eg: 2x 100GB will is better than a 200GB disk.

mike

At 01:51 PM 7/5/2008, Michel wrote:

> > Squid is IO and memory bounded, not cpu bounded. Use the CPU money to
> > buy more RAM/disks
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>guess who is doing the IO ... :)
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>and get yourself a pricelist, the diff between X2 and phenom is irrelevant and
>whatever, hardware is cheap
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>michel
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