RE: System Requirements

hiya, new to the list today I am very new to linux very green, however don a
couple of basic installations and I can do all the user type stuff however
what i want to do is create a dial on demand e-mail and and web gateway, I
am using suse linux and apparently have asked squid to startup where now, I
have my PPP details and would like to use ISDN,

I have already scoured the web all that I seem to see is a bunch of pages
saying do this, I would like a little more foundation if anyone could
recommend a good book or something I would be very grateful else and
suggestion are appreciated

stu steele

-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie Shields [mailto:J.Shields@Kingston.ac.uk]
Sent: 07 August 2000 15:23
To: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: 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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Jamie Shields
Deputy Computing Officer
Computer Resources Centre
Faculty of Human Sciences
Kingston University
Phone: (0181) 547-2000 ex:2367
http://humansciences.king.ac.uk
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Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 08:54:37 MDT