RE: [squid-users] Squid tuning for low end hardware (network appliances)

 
>
> I was wondering if anyone would care to share some ideas on
> how to tune
> squid for a small network appliance. We have customized
> OpenBSD to run
> on a Soekris net4801 (http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm), which has a
> 266 MHz 586 class processor, 128MB of RAM and a 30GB (15GB of
> which are
> available to squid) laptop size drive. These boxes are currently
> router/firewall/VPN/transparent proxies for remote offices with about
> 15-20 employees on average. I also plan on attempting to add Snort to
> that list of services in the near future. How would you tune
> squid for
> this hardware and scenario?
>
 
 Some guidelines contained in :

       http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200503/0829.html

 You seem to very low on RAM though , even for a minimal squid configuration.

 M.
Received on Mon Mar 28 2005 - 22:40:18 MST