RE: [squid-users] Hardware Requirements

One solution to this problem is to put a sniffer on your network and capture
http traffic for a week. That will let you know how much http downloads
occur in a week's time period. From there you can figure out how much space
to allow for caching, memory, etc. This is also a good benchmark because
then you can perform the same data capture after your proxy is installed and
see what kind of bandwidth savings is occuring. Your ISP may also be able to
provide you some sort of report as to how much http traffic you are using
each week. Peak days, hours, etc.

Answering your question is hard, because your 100 users may seldom use the
internet, or they may all be engineers or graphic designers (or IT folks)
who might be downloading large software patches, images, or cad drawings.

Chris Perreault

-----Original Message-----
From: Zen [mailto:zenmurugan@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:49 AM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Hardware Requirements

Hello All,
Please give me solution for the below.

If I have 100 users using the internet and i want to setup squid proxy, then

* What should be my Hardware Requirements (System speed,RAM,disk space)?
* If the all the users are using the internet, then at the maximum how much
requests, they will be generating per second?
* How much memory should I allocate for the squid to handle all these
requests?

Looking forward for your solution

Thanks
Zen.
Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 05:09:00 MDT