On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> All, >> >> I've got a Compaq ML570 with 2gb RAM, dual PIII Xeon 700s and 5x10k >> RPM drives in it attached to a Compaq 5300 RAID card that I'm going to >> be using as a squid box. >> >> I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare, >> and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache on the >> latter, and have mounted it as /squid. >> >> I'm running 7STABLE from a couple of days ago. >> >> What might I do to achieve better/best performance? I'm replacing a >> less capable whitebox. One of the big issues I've had has manifested >> itself recently - we've moved from a T1 to a DS3, and while overall >> throughput has increased dramatically, people are now complaining that >> "the Internet is slow", which I've found is all down to initial page >> load. I'm pursuing optimizing squid elsewhere, and want to focus on >> getting this box as fast as I reasonably can before sticking squid on >> it. I've got more RAM to put into it - I'd be stealing from another >> machine that's little used, but I should be able to get it to 4gb RAM. >> >> As a benchmark, there are about 230 people in my site who will be >> using this box for their proxy, and their usage is all over the map - >> worse, I haven't been given the time to put any analysis tools into >> play to figure out the load on the old box, as we're in the middle of >> a number of other projects of equal or higher priority. >> >> Kurt >> > > I would recommend fBSD 6.3 instead of 7. You don't need it, unless you have > a documented reason it has to be 7.0
Why not? It installed really well, and I've had no issues with it on other machines. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"