Re: System Requirements

Hi,

I've got a cache on a network with about 300 clients (mostly NT) with a Squid
cache running on a P166 w/128Mb RAM, 6Gb of Cache on a SCSI disk
(Squid/2.3.STABLE4).
This cache handles between 700Mb and 1Gb of traffic per day during busy
periods. (That doesn't mean that it couldn't handle more).

I'm very happy with the performance and suggest that the your main concern
should be to make sure that you've got enough RAM for the size of your cache
(a little over 10Mb of RAM per Gb of cache) plus whatever you've allocated to
hot objects in the squid.conf file (the more the better). See the "cache_mem"
directive.

Cheers

On 4 Aug 00, at 10:10, Kevin Ruggiero wrote:

> I'm currently looking into proxying solutions, and I noticed that the
> recommended configuration on the squid site is PII 300 with SCSI hard
> drives (that was listed as of 1998). When I look at the requirements for
> Microsoft Proxy Server, they are actually very low (P133 w/ 64RAM
> suggested for supporting 0-300 PCs).
>
> I know sys requirements can be very subjective, and the squid site
> didn't mention how many desktops that would support, but I'm wondering why
> there's such a large gap. Can anyone offer some insight here? What would
> I really need on squid to get good performance while supporting about 100
> PCs?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> -----
> Kevin Ruggiero -- SUNY at Buffalo
> E-mail: kdr@Buffalo.EDU
> URL : http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~kdr
>

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Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 08:26:20 MDT