Re: System Requirements

I've worked with both proxy and squid, I believe that ms proxy has some
benefits but it has some significant problems directly related to its lack
of compliance with socks. If your not 100% MS do not run ms proxy. This
is just a personnal suggestion but it is more of a head ache then anything
else. As far as system requirements, Microsoft's requirements are way too
low for 300 users and a fast connect, you must remember that if you are
running a T-1 or higher and have 100+ users than for adequate performance
you need at least a PPro 200 with some fast ATA/66 HDDs, SCSI would be nice
though. If you only have BRI or less than T-1 with occasional use from the
users (30% rule) then microsoft's claims are justified for both Squid and
MS proxy. Right now the office I am in is running 30+ users over a Pentium
166, with FreeBSD 3.5 - STABLE and 64MB of RAM with some ATA/66 7200RM HDDs
and it works fine. Pretty much the factors that determine your required
speed is the number of users/usage and the speed of your cached connection.

I hope that helped,

Jonathan Lisic

                                                                                                                   
                    Kevin
                    Ruggiero To: squid-users@ircache.net
                    <kdr@cse.Buff cc:
                    alo.EDU> Subject: System Requirements
                                                                                                                   
                    08/04/00
                    07:10 AM
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                   

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.

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Kevin Ruggiero -- SUNY at Buffalo
                   E-mail: kdr@Buffalo.EDU
                   URL : http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~kdr
Received on Fri Aug 04 2000 - 13:19:49 MDT