Re: Advice: for a U450

Hi Randall,

I use several E450 servers for big Squid applications and they generally
perform extremely well with very large numbers of clients.

I would suggest, from the performance of our boxes, that the processor is
the least likely item to need an upgrade (unless, of course, your E450s
are doing more than just Squid!)

The best upgrades to make at this point would be simply adding more memory
and hard disc space. To give you an idea, our E450s have 1Gb of memory and
12Gb of Squid space.

Do ask if you want any more info.

Rgds
Richard Stagg

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Randall Badilla Castro wrote:

> Hi all:
> I'm using a Sun 450 Entreprise server machine with 128 MB ram, 2
> GB for squid and a 100 MB FastEthernet Nic directly connected to our
> 10/100 3com Switch. This machine don't use the swap partition, but I want
> to increase the responsiness of the machine. (explaining: the machine is
> hited by ~1000 machines... so the disk is always pumping) I want to know
> what can improve the machine another 128MB of ram of a second processor
> just to bound it to the squid process. I need your advice since the memory
> upgrade cost ~$2K and the second processor ~$2.5 on my country. Then I
> want to choose the best option!
> Any comment is welcome!
>
> TIA,
> Best Regards

---------------------------------
Richard Stagg
Internet Architect
squid@bae.co.uk
Received on Thu May 20 1999 - 02:54:30 MDT