Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Question on system req.

[Robert O. <d9...@na...>]

> Wondering if anyone has any stats available on how rabbIT performs on
> various hardware... say a P2 400 vs. a P4 3GHz under varying user loads.

I do not have such statistics.

> I'm trying to get an idea of what the hardware requirements are. Can I get
> way with a visit to the closet scrap heap, or should this be run on
> relatively powerful hardware?  Is a dedicated machine preferred, or can it
> live in harmony on a lightly used web server?

For what type of load will you use it?
Can you give an estimate of the number of users and how much they
will use the service? Can you describe the clients (pda? normal pc on
modem? or are you planning to use rabbit for ad filtering?).
What OS and jvm do you plan to use? jdk1.1 will let you run rabbit,
but jdk1.4 is faster and better in many ways. IBM's jvm will most
probably perform better than the SUN jvm.

My initial guess is that if your clients will be pda's on cell on
cell phones you can get whatever hardware you can get, some hard disk
space may be required if you will cache pages for long.

If you configure rabbit to only be a proxy with no filtering it will
use very little cpu, if you enable image compression and adfiltering
you will use much cpu. So depending on the configuration your results
will vary much.

Letting rabbit share cpu with a web server should be fine. I see no
reason to use a dedicated server unless you have _many_ clients doing
heavy requests.

Have fun
/robo