Hi, We've been testing a squid proxy at my workplace (~300 machines locally) on a smaller group of 60 machines. (used the Windows' "autodetect proxy" thing with some javascript on a local webserver to get get our 'volunteers')
Our new machine arrived which will be replacing this test unit. P4, 3.4 GHz, 2 SATA drives, 1 GB RAM, Broadcom (bge) gigabit NIC. We connect via gig fiber to teh intarweb and CA*Net4 (research/education network much like Internet2 in the US) so the users expect pretty quick response time. Like the test unit, I'll be tweaking until I find the sweet spot of cache hits and age with performance. I was wondering if anyone had any Squid on OpenBSD pointers and/or answers to these questions: - is it any faster to use multiple cache partitions on the disks or should one on each drive be good enough? Remember these are SATA drives. SCSI could be picked up if it will make a huge difference. - diskd sounds like it's a good performance booster and has worked fairly well on my limited testbed. Any caveats on an installation of the size I'm looking at? Thanks in advance! Gord
