From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 15 13:36:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA27510 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:36:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from house.multinet.net (house.multinet.net [204.138.173.37]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA27501 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:36:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gabber.multinet.net (gabber.multinet.net [204.138.173.45]) by house.multinet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA28184 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:34:43 -0500 Message-ID: <32DD4D79.446B9B3D@multinet.net> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:34:49 -0500 From: graydon hoare X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need your suggestions! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Proxy caches work great. Pentium servers can handle the load easily. Speed > is related to RAM, so if the server is not fast enough, add more RAM and > tell Squid to use it. A hard drive of 2 - 4 gigabytes is plenty of room > for the second level cache. > agreed -- squid is very effective. HTTP is an inefficient protocol for multimedia. Adding a local cache with 128megs of ram will make your network fly. I have added it here and it significantly improved things. -graydon