Re: [squid-users] Which OS - Newbie question

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:11:08 +0200

On Monday 14 July 2003 03.40, Mathew Thomas wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am planning to build squid proxy for our University on a couple
> of HP (Intel) boxes. I was wondering which OS should I use so that
> proxy server will be running at high performance and secure level .
> The OS which I am considering are:
>
> 1) Red Hat 8
> 2 ) Red Hat 9
> 3) Intel Solaris 9
> 4) Other - please comment

The one you are most familiar with. All perform pretty good for Squid.

Solaris may require a little more tuning in I/O than RedHat however
due to it's stricter filesystem implementation.

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Received on Tue Jul 15 2003 - 14:11:46 MDT

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