Re: [squid-users] squid Scaling

* Murugavel Thiruvengadam <tmurugavel@gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> We are implementing squid for a Large group.
>
> Minimum you will get 75000 Request per second. We are planning to put
> Dual CPU Xeon Processor with 4GB of RAM. multiple Scsi Controller.

Squid cannot use the second processor; and it's mostly I/O bound.

Solution:
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Sell the second processor and get more disks instead

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