Hi Alastair,
>
> I believe squids aren't very good on virtual machines because latency
> is important and thats something you lose with virtualization. At the
> Tier 1 we currently have 6 squid boxes, (doing 3 different things) but
> we hope that over time we can merge these into one large pool.
>
Would it be possible to elaborate on the performance limitations seen
from using virtual machines? We are currently looking to deploy squid at
our site and we would like to use a virtual instance if we can. Is there
a specific recommendation somewhere to use bare metal rather than
virtualisation?
Thanks,
Andy.
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