[squid-users] Re: squid deployment for cache gain

  Hi,

Any guideline for my below requirement. Please share your suggestions
for the same.

Benjamin

> Hi All,
>
> We have to deploy squid for cache gain in our network where we are
> having 140-150 mbps bandwith and 600 users.As per our H/W, we have 8
> gb ram and 2 TB disk with intel i3 processor with GBPS lan cards.We
> only use squid on this h/w nothing else.
>
> So for going to setup squid in network , i have some queries.
>
> 1) what should be memory we use for squid ?
> 2) multiple creation of cache_dir is better or single big cache_dir is
> better ?
> 3) At some blogs , i read that small objects in memory and disk are
> very much beneficial for cache gain rather then specifing big size
> objects for disk and memory ?
> 4) Multiple instance of squid is better or single squid instance is
> able to handle such kind of heavy load. ?
>
>
> Please share your suggestions with squid and cache gain in such kind
> of big networks
>
>
> Thanks,
> Benjamin
Received on Tue Nov 01 2011 - 10:09:42 MDT