Re: [squid-users] Squid versus Microsoft ISA

Hi Carols,
Have you been able to determine that Squid is actually making use of both
processors? Do you have other applications running on the same box?

Ralph


----- Original Message -----
From: <zottmann@ig.com.br>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid versus Microsoft ISA


> Hi !!!
>
> About your statement ...
>
> > Except that with ISA you can use a SMP box. The 2 products have vastly
> > different hardware requirements, if you buy/build a box for squid it
> > will be a 1 CPU box, which would not be a good choice for ISA.
>
> We are using Squid over Red Hat Linux here in a SMP box, and it is running
> fine. Is is a IBM box with two CPUs and 1 GB of memory (seen as four CPUs
by
> the OS due to some hardware feature) and it is dealing with 2200 users,
> handling something like 2gig of throughput.
>
> By using Squid you can also benefit from other open source/free software
> produtcs, like contentfiltering (DansGuardian, Poesia-filter), controlling
> the amount of user traffic per time period (Squid2Mysql), and so on.
>
> Squid also has a very nice feature called "delay pools", that allows you
to
> control bandwidth usage based on user, user groups, file extension, etc...
> I don´t know if MS ISA has something like that.
>
> Regards,
> Carlos.
>
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