BTW, I'm running Squid for a network of 35-ish machines with a max of 24 concurrent web browsers on a machine with 64MB of RAM, a 450 Mhz PII, and a 4 GB HDD that is dedicated entirely to Squid i.e. it's /usr/local/squid. From other people's experience am I likely to find I'm over specified, or under or what?
We ran it for two years in a 96MB p-166 that was also the school's central filestore, DNS, mailhost, printserver, intranet etc etc etc, we then moved it six months ago to a 128MB p2-300 to which we also moved a few other things like NIS & DHCP, on which it's fine with about 300 clients although most of them quiescent much of the time, however, it's serving about 50K hits a day involving about 400MB (it's a 128K 24-hour line). Cache currently only 500MB. You are overspecified by comparison, but you might do better with more RAM. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-820527 or 07798 636725 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk