Re: advice for squid configuration

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Benjamin Lee wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Just a simple question (I think). ;-)
>
> I have been supplied with a Pentium II 400, 64 MB and a 25 Gig HDD.
>
> This is supposed to be a proxy (even though I think more RAM, less CPU,
> and less HDD would be better, I don't pull the strings).
>
> What would be the recommended settings for the following?
>
> cache_mem (currently at 16MB)
>
> cache_dir /var/spool/squid 10000 16 256
>
> (funny hay, 10 Gig, I've got nothing better to put the HDD to, as it's
> supposed to be a dedicated proxy.)

You will definately need more than 64M RAM.

With only 64M, you can probably only use 2 GB of disk space
for caching. I find that I my disk:memory ratio should be
about 32:1.

Duane W.
Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 14:05:07 MDT