» Behalf Of Abhishek Gupta » Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:36 PM » to use huge amount of RAM something to a tun= of 16GB, what I » wanted
16GB just for a proxy seems overkill to me. Is this RAM figure derived from some realistic calculations?
a proxy server would benefit from 1. a faster and larger hard disk array (this is to be used by page cache) 2. multiple, load balanced NICs (so that max no of users can be served at once)
so instead of going in for a 16gb ram server, you can put the money in above two areas.
Thanks and Regards, Kiran Ghag Web Page: http://kiran7.freeservers.com
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