From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 18 4:11:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FFFD14E78 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 04:11:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id VAA05901; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 21:06:07 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA20881; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:34:00 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 20:31:13 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Marty Poulin Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Squid (was Re: Using tcpdump to report on web-surfing habits) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message