Re: which version shall i use?

I'm running 1.2BETA20 on freebsd as a transparent proxy server and also
using MRTG to see what's happening. Everything is running fine with no
problems whatsoever. The cache size is 15 Gig and 4 GIG on another server
running the exact same configuration.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Xia Hao <axis@prodigychina.com>
To: Jordan Mendelson <jordy@wserv.com>
Cc: squid-users@ircache.net <squid-users@ircache.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 5:50 PM
Subject: RE: which version shall i use?

>I think i'm in a condition that's basically to yours. What specific
>version are you using now? What features have you enabled? And can you
>post a list of cites that won't work well with transparent proxy? That
>might make its to FAQ i think...
>
>axis
>
>On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
>
>> > I don't believe any version of 1.2X is ready yet for the productions
>> > release. What features of 1.2 do you need?
>>
>> Actually, the latest versions are quite stable even if the cachemgr
provides
>> 0 useful information now :)
>>
>> I run it as a transparent proxy (no async) and it seems to hold it's own,
no
>> crashes, uses about 96 megs of memory for a 4 gig cache (I like to
allocate
>> a lot of RAM...). It doesn't crash, I haven't found too many web sites it
>> doesn't work with.. (damn Quicken software hates it though, but I'm
pretty
>> sure Quicken issues illegal requests).
>>
>> It does go a bit wacky if you try to kill the root owned process (kills
the
>> root process, doesn't notify the www process and then RunCache tries to
>> restart it...
>>
>> Other than that, I run it in a production environment and haven't gotten
any
>> complaints from customers.
>>
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>> --
>> Jordan Mendelson : http://jordy.wserv.com
>> Web Services, Inc. : http://www.wserv.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 11 1998 - 16:34:22 MDT