Re: Does anyone run squid on a college campus?

Hi!

I can notr compete with "Sys Admin" but anyway Squid is caching the
Traffic in our Studentshostille wich is a 100 of the size (~60 users) and
is connected thru a 128k link to our univeristy the traffic is "only about
a 300M per day. load average is something around .2 one a PII/350 (there
is also a 60G samba server on it).
Anyway small is beautifull

Gregor

Today Sys Admin slept on the keyboard and thought about Re: Does anyone run...

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> we run squid here at New Paltz. There is a user base of 8000
> people...and the one squid box sees about 60,000 --> 100,000 requests an
> hour. we have two T1's and we are getting a third one in. the proxy is
> the only machine on one of the T's thus it's the only traffic on it (and
> the T1 is more managable). we see a hit ratio of 26%-40%.
>
> our main concern is fast content delivery first...and bw savings second.
> i feel squid does well with this. it is extremely stable...efficient and
> fast (one non-blocking IO process 8-) ). in fact....i am trying to get
> money together to form a better cache hierarchy (i.e more web cacheing
> boxes)...more redundancy.
>
>
> fwiw, before squid....we tried netscape enterprise proxy on a E3000.
> found it to be resource intensive and not as stable. after NE proxy...we
> ran M$ proxy on an NT machine. that was not very suited for our
> purposes...it crashed quite often...too much in fact.
>
>
>
>
> -a-
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> oh yeah...we run squid on a Sun E450 with 8GB of disk cache. before i ran
> it on th sun box...it was running on a dell poweredge 2500 (PII 350Mhz)
> for nine months. it ran very smoothly....i just had to give up that dell
> to the netware admin 8-(.
>
> at peek times....the sun e450 has a load of about .74 (mind you it's a
> mail server also).
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> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Jake R. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Does anyone run squid on a college campus? If so how many students and
> > how is your network performance.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jake R. Johnson
> > Academic Computing
> > Information Technology Desktop Support Intern
> > Phone 424-3020 (Help-desk will redirect)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Gregor Hlawacek                                                  Austria
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