New Squid/comments

I just turned up our squid server:

Linux 2.0.33
PII 233mhz
100bT
512MB SDRAM
4x2GB RAID0 array (Wide)
squid 1.1.20

"noatime" running on the squid cache
"filehandle.patch" for linux (file-descriptors)

Do these settings look about right:

cache_mem 450
cache_swap 6500
cache_swap_low 90
cache_swap_high 95
ipcache_size 8196
ipcache_low 90
ipcache_high 95

1. Are there any other performance tuning I should do with linux
specifically?

2. Is there a simple way to "force" the squid on users? Maybe by some how
redirecting outgoing port 80 requests at the Cisco, back to squid? I am
just interested in seeing how the squid does with *all* of our users using
it. Since I just turned it on, its going to be quite a while before I get
thousands of users to go in and configure there browsers to point to our
auto-config file.

Brian

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Received on Fri Feb 06 1998 - 07:07:26 MST