From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 01:39:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F70106567E for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:39:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryan.coleman@cwis.biz) Received: from mail.skiltech.com (bunning.skiltech.com [65.36.251.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865A58FC13 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryan.coleman@cwis.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.skiltech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F09825BED8; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:39:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at skiltech.com Received: from mail.skiltech.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bunning.skiltech.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ziBC4W-l9Drl; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:39:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-71-63-150-244.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [71.63.150.244]) by mail.skiltech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 82F7225BC60; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:39:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:39:05 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kurt Buff References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:39:11 -0000 Kurt Buff wrote: > All, > > I've got a Compaq ML570 with 2gb RAM, dual PIII Xeon 700s and 5x10k > RPM drives in it attached to a Compaq 5300 RAID card that I'm going to > be using as a squid box. > > I've configured two drives as RAID 1 with the third as a hot spare, > and two drives as RAID0 - I intend to put the squid cache on the > latter, and have mounted it as /squid. > > I'm running 7STABLE from a couple of days ago. > > What might I do to achieve better/best performance? I'm replacing a > less capable whitebox. One of the big issues I've had has manifested > itself recently - we've moved from a T1 to a DS3, and while overall > throughput has increased dramatically, people are now complaining that > "the Internet is slow", which I've found is all down to initial page > load. I'm pursuing optimizing squid elsewhere, and want to focus on > getting this box as fast as I reasonably can before sticking squid on > it. I've got more RAM to put into it - I'd be stealing from another > machine that's little used, but I should be able to get it to 4gb RAM. > > As a benchmark, there are about 230 people in my site who will be > using this box for their proxy, and their usage is all over the map - > worse, I haven't been given the time to put any analysis tools into > play to figure out the load on the old box, as we're in the middle of > a number of other projects of equal or higher priority. > > Kurt > I would recommend fBSD 6.3 instead of 7. You don't need it, unless you have a documented reason it has to be 7.0