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About Proxy Capacity & performance

Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:24 pm

i m using 3.30 with level 4 license
P4 2.6GHz
1GB RAM
500GB SATA HDD

my question is
How much proxy data can handle with this configuration

thnx i advance........
 
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Re: About Proxy Capacity & performance

Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:53 am

Not very much - you want to have atleast 1Gbyte ram for every 100gig of cache :) Otherwise you will have poor performance, and even crashes (atleast this is the case with squid)
 
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Re: About Proxy Capacity & performance

Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:31 pm

thnx for your reply
i know about squid ram requirements
now my cache is about 80 gig
but system utilize only average 13% of ram
& proxy utilize 25 mb

if i want to fillup 500 gig hdd with cache what will be the performance & ram requirement :(
 
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Re: About Proxy Capacity & performance

Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:03 pm

The caching proxy feature of RouterOS is meant for small networks and a couple of users. I you need a large caching proxy, get a dedicated device that runs software explicitly designed to serve as such.
 
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Re: About Proxy Capacity & performance

Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:59 pm

thnx a lot
 
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Re: About Proxy Capacity & performance

Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:05 pm

Small networks is arbitrary . What would define as a small/big network? ie how many users, what bandwidth etc
 
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Re: About Proxy Capacity & performance

Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:16 pm

No more than 50 concurrent users, no more than 10Mbps.

Or something.
 
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Re: About Proxy Capacity & performance

Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:54 pm

There are power routers by linktechs(Mikrotik OS) out there that do a great deal of cache than what you have stated and handle quite big networks we would say 300-500 concurrent users and more bandwidth