Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my platform

Hello,

        I am not sure I would use IDE drives, depending on your cache size the IDE will
have a slower read write time. If you have the budget go with SCSI.

If not, we use a PIII 1GHz with 1GB of RAM - 700MB of RAM for the OS and squid
to use and 300MB for the "cache" directory. Of course we lose all the cache if
the box reboots -- but it is only cache, you can copy it to a HDD directory
if you really want to keep it.

Michael.

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:13:50 -0700
Jason Williams <jwilliams@courtesymortgage.com> wrote:

>
> >Pretty small numbers, unless these users are very heavily surfing with
> >high speed connectivity.
>
> Well, we do a lot of connecting to vendor web sites that have web
> interfaces that we use.
>
> >What kind of users?
>
> Not sure what you mean here, but a big part of our company uses the
> internet for a variety of things.
>
>
> >If these users are "normal" office users then a old Pentium with a single
> >IDE drive will do the job with no problem. Only thing to watch out for is
> >memory usage (See Squid FAQ on how much memory Squid requires).
>
> Yes, normal office computers. All running IE because our vendor web sites
> will not work with alternate browsers.
>
> >Regards
> >Henrik
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
Michael Gale
Network Administrator
Utilitran Corporation