Re: [squid-users] many clients issue

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:06:07 +0100

Payal wrote:

> Now me and my friend are going to install squid at a place where it will
> serve about 150-200 clients atleast at a given time. What extra
> things/precautions do I have to take care of?

Not much. It is still a tiny userbase.

> Are there any docs I should refer for this big installs. I will be having a
> machine with Mandrake Linux 8 or above, with around 40Gb h/d, atleast 256Mb
> RAM with P-III processor. Do I need a better conf? This machine will also act
> as email server with a small mail volume.

That machine will need more task to do, or it will get bored ;-)

If these 200 users are surfing a lot then you probably should build
squid using the "aufs" cache_dir format. And don't use a too large
cache_dir.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer
Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 19:45:37 MST

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