Re: [squid-users] Speed up Squid for Soekris 5501

Hi!

First, the obvious question: do you intent to have "disk cache" on
this squid deployment? if so, please evaluate the live of the flash
card, and maybe, think about adapting a SSD instead (or, maybe, a SATA
disk, the soekris net5501 actually have SATA port).

Second: as for using 512MB of RAM, it depends:

what else will this thing do for you? (firewall, VPN, how knows...)

How many users do you intent to serve out of it?

I have configured proxies with as little as 256MB RAM: no big deal,
mainly: cache_memory, but I use these for small sites, say, <30
clients (authenticating from LDAP). I also have a *real* hard-drive.
Oh, btw, you need to limit the disk cache size (because the more disk
cache, the more ram needed).

Have you thought about using a Mini-ITX board instead? (maybe,
Atom-based, they are actually cheaper, and if you don't need the 4 eth
ports, would be better for your purposes). I think Soekris produces
really good hardware, but I find it more suited for industrial
applications (or just for *the geek factor*, or when you need the
*real* serial ports and the fact that you just need a 6-25Vdc power
supply for it)..... the hardware is a little expensive, at >US$200 per
board..... I can get a mini-itx for <US$100 (plus a "car power supply"
if you want to feed the thing with just one DC voltage, around US$50
or so, you end up with a larger system with just US$150 or less).

I hope this helps,

Ildefonso Camargo

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
<luis.daniel.lucio_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm porting squid to that little appliance.  For those who dont know soekris,
> it has a AMD i586 compatible CPU 512 Mhgz  and 512 MB or RAM,  inmy case i use
> FlashCard so IO is not fast for OS and a USB for logs (little faster, not
> enought).
>
> this box will use a proxy just to accelerate user navigation, no filtering, no
> authentication.  SO i wonder to know what configurations options shall i place
> in order to minimize squid memory comsuption and speed it up.
>
> Regards,
>
> LD
>
Received on Mon Jul 26 2010 - 04:28:27 MDT