> > Our planned deployment box is a 8-way, 16GB ram, 1TB (6 disks > > I think) server which will be running RedHat Enterprise Linux.
There's been some recent list discussions about how squid uses CPU - you'd be much better off with 4 load balanced dual core boxes than one 8 core box. RAM is cheap so put 16gig in all four :-) Just make sure you install the 64 bit kernel.
