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. Yes, it

[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

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

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

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 marcus.k...@urlfilterdb.com 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

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 marcus.k...@urlfilterdb.com wrote: and if your network pipe has sufficient capacity, also fetching an object again from the internet is can be

RE: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Viljoen
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 wondering what the specs

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread csn233
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Marcus Kool marcus.k...@urlfilterdb.com 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 +

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

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 marcus.k...@urlfilterdb.com 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

RE: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Stephan Viljoen
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 Hardware

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread Ricardo Klein
: 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 Hardware requirements. On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:53:20PM +0800, csn233 wrote: With YMMV in mind, I get different mileage: On Fri

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

Re: [squid-users] Squid Hardware requirements.

2013-06-14 Thread csn233
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Marcus Kool marcus.k...@urlfilterdb.com 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