Hello, We have recently been running very low on system growth through our squid cache servers in an ISP transparent cache service. I have no problems running it etc and its been great for a long time.
I have some questions about an upgrade path. We are currently looking to increase many of our servers performance. This has been done to try and grow with our customers growth to adsl etc etc. Currently im running 8 * Dual Pentium 3 1ghz servers with 4gb RAM and 4 * 18gb SCSI drives for the store in each system (only about 10-12gb used max per disk). What we are looking at doing is upgrading we are tossing up the options I have been reading alot about what we should be looking towards. I have some questions though that I would like to answer. I have been told that the Opteron systems are great for this type of application. Primarily because of the great memory controller on chip/large amount of RAM that the system can handle. I am looking to upgrade the service to a single Opteron 244 at this stage with the same sort of disk arrangement however Im looking at 4 * 36GB (because the 18s are getting harder and harder to get if they fail). however Im looking to use the 15,000RPM drives. Would that make a big difference to the over all performance? Does/Can squid use any of the benefits of going to an opteron. Should I just look at other platforms. Any additional Advice would be great. Regards, Jack http://forum.lucidnow.com
