[squid-users] squid on moderate scales

Hi,
A friend of mine, a lab teacher, at a college is going to install squid
on her college's Mandrake 10.0 official machine. She will use the default
squid-2.5 Stable4 rpm cos' she is very new to unix. The problem is that
there will be around 300 students using it as a proxy server plus
around 25 teachers. Students will get access to a few sites and teachers
to all. Now, my question is that will the default squid bundled in the
OS be able to handle all the load? The machine is big, PIV 2Ghz with 1Gb swap
and fast SCSI drives with 512Mb RAM (a gift from a leading computer
company). This is the first time they are using a free OS in the
college and I will be giving help from outside for squid.conf.
Can someone share her/his experience with this load? The server will
just have a caching dns and maybe a dhcp server with the same (not
sure).

Thanks a lot for the help in advance.
With warm regards,
-Payal
Received on Mon Aug 02 2004 - 09:59:36 MDT