[squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-31 Thread HillTopsGM
I am not sure if I should start another thread with this - my apologies for bumping it . . . but in the last post I was looking to see if these 4 steps was a sensible method of telling the proxy to only cache certain sites: * STEP 1/4 * acl noproxy dstdomain .com .net .org etc, etc. *

Re: [squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-31 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 1/09/2013 4:14 a.m., HillTopsGM wrote: I am not sure if I should start another thread with this - my apologies for bumping it . . . but in the last post I was looking to see if these 4 steps was a sensible method of telling the proxy to only cache certain sites: * STEP 1/4 * acl noproxy

[squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-31 Thread HillTopsGM
If I under stand you then, just *remove* the '*always_direct allow noproxy*' and the steps I have posted should work? does the order in which these appear in the squid.conf file: cache allow windowsupdate cache deny noproxy . . . matter? I don't believe they should as they are defined more

Re: [squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-31 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 1/09/2013 4:34 a.m., HillTopsGM wrote: If I under stand you then, just *remove* the '*always_direct allow noproxy*' and the steps I have posted should work? Yes. does the order in which these appear in the squid.conf file: cache allow windowsupdate cache deny noproxy . . . matter?

[squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-25 Thread HillTopsGM
In connection with my last post, I also had this question: Let's say that with my 4GB of RAM I decided to create a total cache storage area that was 650GB; obviously the index would be much larger than could be stored in RAM. If my primary purpose was to 'archive' my windows updates, I'd

[squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-24 Thread HillTopsGM
The rule-of-thumb is 15MB *per GB of cache size*. Thanks Amos - that's the rule of thumb I was looking for. Somewhere along the way I thought I saw 10MB per GB of Cache but it was vague. I was also given a piece of advice to maybe create multiple directories of no more than 100 GB per. I

[squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-24 Thread HillTopsGM
In connection with my last post, I also had this question: Let's say that with my 4GB of RAM I decided to create a total cache storage area that was 650GB; obviously the index would be much larger than could be stored in RAM. If my primary purpose was to 'archive' my windows updates, I'd expect

Re: [squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-24 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 25/08/2013 11:20 a.m., HillTopsGM wrote: In connection with my last post, I also had this question: Let's say that with my 4GB of RAM I decided to create a total cache storage area that was 650GB; obviously the index would be much larger than could be stored in RAM. If my primary purpose

Re: [squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-23 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, HillTopsGM, Du meintest am 22.08.13: *Question 2:* Seeing how this is significantly larger that the default 100 MB should I consider increasing the size of the 16 256 in the above sample code? That depends! I know many squid installations in schools, with about 200 ... 500 clients

Re: [squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-23 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 23/08/2013 5:27 p.m., HillTopsGM wrote: Thanks for the Reply Amos. As per my original post, can anyone comment on the original 2 questions? *Question 1:* If I wanted to dedicate 3 GB of the Ram to the index, would that mean that I should set my cache_dir to 3072? cache_dir ufs

[squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-22 Thread HillTopsGM
Thanks for the Reply Amos. As per my original post, can anyone comment on the original 2 questions? *Question 1:* If I wanted to dedicate 3 GB of the Ram to the index, would that mean that I should set my cache_dir to 3072? cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 3072 16 256 *Question 2:*

[squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-21 Thread HillTopsGM
That's really interesting! I'll look into it a little closer, however, I already have the hardware, and there is the potential to use the system for other program updates within the network. I thought that I'd /start/ by focusing on something like Windows Updates, with the idea that I could

Re: [squid-users] Re: cache_dir size v.s. available RAM

2013-08-21 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 22/08/2013 5:59 a.m., HillTopsGM wrote: That's really interesting! I'll look into it a little closer, however, I already have the hardware, and there is the potential to use the system for other program updates within the network. I thought that I'd /start/ by focusing on something like