Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:31:13 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Squid (was Re: Using tcpdump to report on web-surfing habits) Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990918200226.871A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990917163740.9308B-100000@spectre>
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On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Marty Poulin wrote:
> Part of the reason I want this information (aside from being the network
> snitch) is because I want to eventually justify purchasing a fairly large
> server that I can run Squid on with content filters. I've already set up
> a small test box that works quite well, but it slows down when too much of
> a load is placed on it (it's a P-100 with 24MB ram).
Squid demands RAM. Performs great until the system starts swapping, then
you're dead. Even a lowly P100 can perform very well as a squid server
given enough RAM. The content filtering is likely to increase the CPU
requirement.
My experience with Squid 2.1 suggests that about 1MB of RAM per 35MB of
disk cache space should be allowed for. Given this, I would expect that
128MB of RAM would allow you to run a 4GB cache, allowing for kernel
memory use etc. and no swapping.
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