Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:35:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed... Message-ID: <20080701153429.X1864@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860806301711k707f79cewd491e76418eb1440@mail.gmail.com> References: <a9f4a3860806301711k707f79cewd491e76418eb1440@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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. you need only as much ram as to make squid database fit. roughly 7-8MB/GB storage, with 5 18GB disks it's <1GB, still less if you allow big files to be cached
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