[squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Viljoen
Hi There, I need to build a proxy server for an ISP handling about 4000 ip addresses over a 125Mbps of Internet bandwidth and were wondering what the specs for such a server would be? It's going to be a transparent squid server configured with Tproxy running as a bridge. I'm thinking of using arou

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 14/06/2013 10:15 p.m., Stephan Viljoen wrote: Hi There, I need to build a proxy server for an ISP handling about 4000 ip addresses over a 125Mbps of Internet bandwidth and were wondering what the specs for such a server would be? It's going to be a transparent squid server configured with Tpr

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Marcus Kool
On 06/14/2013 07:15 AM, Stephan Viljoen wrote: Hi There, I need to build a proxy server for an ISP handling about 4000 ip addresses over a 125Mbps of Internet bandwidth and were wondering what the specs for such a server would be? It's going to be a transparent squid server configured with Tpr

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread csn233
With YMMV in mind, I get different mileage: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Marcus Kool wrote: > and if your network pipe has sufficient capacity, also fetching > an object again from the internet is can be faster than fetching from disk. Your network may be fast, but it doesn't imply a fast pa

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Marcus Kool
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:53:20PM +0800, csn233 wrote: > With YMMV in mind, I get different mileage: > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Marcus Kool > wrote: > > and if your network pipe has sufficient capacity, also fetching > > an object again from the internet is can be faster than fetching

RE: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Viljoen
PM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements. On 14/06/2013 10:15 p.m., Stephan Viljoen wrote: > Hi There, > > I need to build a proxy server for an ISP handling about 4000 ip > addresses over a 125Mbps of Internet bandwidth and were wond

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread csn233
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Marcus Kool wrote: > Overall, squid servers without disk cache can be faster than with disk cache, > so it is worth looking at it. OVERALL, it either can be, or it cannot be. No two ways about it. OVERALL. >> > - more expensive (disks + battery-backed I/O contr

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Alex Rousskov
On 06/14/2013 05:38 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > So fast GHz ratings CPUs are better than more slower cores. That depends on the difference in CPU speeds, of course. If you are getting a reasonably fast modern CPU and want to maximize overall performance on a fixed budget, then getting more [physica

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Marcus Kool
On 06/14/2013 01:03 PM, csn233 wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Marcus Kool wrote: - more expensive (disks + battery-backed I/O controller) Expensive disks/battery-backed are over-kill. More/adequate spindles should do the job just as well. Why do you need a battery-backed controll

RE: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Viljoen
sible without sacrificing to much speed. -Original Message- From: Marcus Kool [mailto:marcus.k...@urlfilterdb.com] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:35 PM To: csn233 Cc: Stephan Viljoen; squid-users@squid-cache.org; support and sales desk URLfilterDB Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid Har

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Ricardo Klein
peed. >> >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Marcus Kool [mailto:marcus.k...@urlfilterdb.com] >> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 5:35 PM >> To: csn233 >> Cc: Stephan Viljoen; squid-users@squid-cache.org; support and sales desk >> URLfilterDB >&

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, Ricardo, Du meintest am 14.06.13: > I think that if you can use a good Disc controller (with 1G+ of > cache) and make: 1 Raid10 for the SO with 4 discs > 2 RAID10 for 2 disc_cache storages for squid with 4 discs each (or > even 2 RAID5 with 3 discs each) Sorry - RAID10 decreases the perfo

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread csn233
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Marcus Kool wrote: >>> The 14 MB per GB is documented in the Squid wiki and based on the >>> observation that the avergae object size is 13 KB. >>> If you only have 20-30% of the formula you may have a larger average >>> object size or only use 20-30% of the confgu

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-15 Thread Marcus Kool
On 06/15/2013 02:01 AM, csn233 wrote: The 14 MB per GB is documented in the Squid wiki and based on the >>>observation that the avergae object size is 13 KB. >>>If you only have 20-30% of the formula you may have a larger average >>>object size or only use 20-30% of the confgured disk cache. >