Re: simple Hardware question..

I'd add a small third disk for the system. Probably 4GB, because you might
decide you want to keep long logs or something. Doesn't need to be a speed
demon at all - keeping up with logging functions is not a big stretch. You
just don't want to share the cache disks with the logging and OS
filesystems. Partition-wise, you might have the 4GB partitioned into a
small /, small /usr, and a big /var, and the 9GB partitioned each as one big
filesystem. Using RAID0 is probably a mistake, just use multiple cache
directories.

512MB should be fine under Linux or FreeBSD. My only suggestion would be to
try to leave dimm slots free so that if you ever need more, you can add it
easily.

Later,
scott

----- Original Message -----
From: Milda Mimiene <milda@vingis.sc-uni.ktu.lt>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 3:45 AM
Subject: simple Hardware question..

>
>
> Hi, Squid gurus
>
> I have some questions about disks for cache computer. We are planning to
> by a new computer which will run as University top level cache server. It
> would be something like:
> Intel Pentium III 450 Mhz with 512 MB RAM (is it enough?) and two 9.1 GB
> U2W SCSI (10000p). Question: How to share these two disks for OS and
> cache. Is it good idea to divide 9.1 GB in to two files system. (like
> disk1 and disk2)
> What about 2GB another SCSI for system and logs? Where are better to keep
> swap.state files?
>
> Regards,
>
> Milda Mimiene
> senior engineer
> LITNET NOC
> Kaunas University of technology.
>
>
Received on Mon Aug 30 1999 - 12:11:04 MDT