From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 03:38:58 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 2457A1065679 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:38:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49F68FC2D for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:38:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so1670079wfg.7 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:38:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=qMHeDvKop6RdLfJCiwSvgdhdf828p64jzon9dynykj0=; b=jtdsEwqDP+oYK17xhRLuSIc2GjWXAVQToP2tk8owCGNZTaGvirp/PY4iQu0FlGrmFs xF6hBC6RQBUM86qmwPhsutDKzRnFU57WhjAbc5CR5/TlbmmTIqJGlSIqflBDUuN6A+4t zIA8VL2s4zLa6xxetI8AwsPTbQcYEUxFk0EpA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=K66wPGEHM7nIptOhfyXqsRFRYIOKVwMniPU/+lhLRr8uVo7RgJ+VPrRcjjSD2r0iWx kzj/DYPXbBS0tPKW9slOV83W3iOsUCQgpAG+etjMiO0DF2lzaOVwZlQBhHqBTaPMHaXv SpiglVbKAZpqmBdxLNk2YO7FhM8CDiuBxEfC4= Received: by 10.142.147.15 with SMTP id u15mr2237550wfd.181.1214883537444; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.156.7 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:38:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:38:57 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" To: "Ryan Coleman" In-Reply-To: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> 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 03:38:58 -0000 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > 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 Why not? It installed really well, and I've had no issues with it on other machines.