Hi, I run a rather large Squid server on a Proliant DL 380 G2 (it also uses ciss) with 4 GB of RAM. I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE and Squid 2.5, and I put in some write cache for the RAID controller (BIOS verifies this by claiming it now has Compaq SmartArray 5i+). I've been running this setup since around 4.6-RELEASE and it's been performing well (currently the record is 500 hits per second with only a small penalty to the average service time) and it is as stable as it can get - I've had no unexpected crashes or problems. I may add another box into this for redundancy, but otherwise I sleep well at night without it too. PS: I run in web accelerator mode, and I have a fxp NIC. A stable PCI NIC is cheap however, so if the bge driver doesn't work out for you a temporary solution could be to put in an extra NIC while the driver matures. PS2: I don't see a reason to upgrade to -current or 5.x as long as there is no RELENG_5, so I recommend to go with the latest 4.x RELEASE or with a recent -STABLE. Cheers, -- Anders.Received on Wed May 07 2003 - 07:52:21 UTC
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