Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-14 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.10 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m > > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > > Mem: 1007995 12 0 4 33 > > > -/+ buffers/cache:957 50 > > > Swap: 102

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-14 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:52, Rodrigo A B Freire wrote: > > Not to mention that when a squid -k rotate is issued (or a -k > > reconfigure), the process may grow up to 2x the amount of its size > > for a few seconds... If you don't have swap enough to buffer this > > grow, the proxy will

[squid-users] squid tuning was Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Covington, Chris
> What is it about browsing the web that's not fast > enough? > It could simply be that authentication routines are > slowing it down. It's not slow at all. There doesn't even seem to a speed decrease without the cache at all. I was just wondering the benefits of having a cache. The architect

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread trainier
> > kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > Mem: 1007995 12 0 4 33 > > -/+ buffers/cache:957 50 > > Swap: 1027 18 1008 > I call this "running low

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:52, Rodrigo A B Freire wrote: > Not to mention that when a squid -k rotate is issued (or a -k > reconfigure), the process may grow up to 2x the amount of its size > for a few seconds... If you don't have swap enough to buffer this > grow, the proxy will die miser

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Rodrigo A B Freire
le to allocate xxx bytes. My own (hard-learned) experience. - Original Message - From: "Kinkie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raymond A. Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:06 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS f

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Kinkie
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:25 +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m > > Swap: 1027 18 1008 > > You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be > swapped ou

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m > > Swap: 1027 18 1008 On 13.10 10:25, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: > You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be > swapped out to disk... Linux is q

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.10 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On a side-note. Your 4x33 are set up as RAID or LVM? > > neither one is a good idea. > > http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-3.html#ss3.11 > > Indeed. I was making sure he wasn't raiding his squid cache. :-) > > >if your computes has enough of mem

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m > Swap: 1027 18 1008 You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be swapped out to disk... Ray

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread Rodrigo A B Freire
diskd /usr/local/squid/var/cachee 38000 16 256 Q1=70 Q2=80 Got it? ;-) - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Oh. You're running 4 seperate caches? Yeah, I could

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
quid-cache.org cc Subject Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? On 12.10 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The fact is, we're small enough that it hasn't sorely affected us much at > all. My access log for squid grows to about 4-10 GB in a week. wow, that's very

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
rds, Rodrigo. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? > Oh yeah. I definitely see the advantages. > > The fact is, we're small enough that it hasn

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.10 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The fact is, we're small enough that it hasn't sorely affected us much at > all. My access log for squid grows to about 4-10 GB in a week. wow, that's very much of data transferred in a week. > I made it adimently clear that I would only retain 1 weeks

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
ion routines). On a side-note. Your 4x33 are set up as RAID or LVM? Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Rodrigo A B Freire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/11/2005 10:52 PM To cc Subject Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? In my cache

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
y, October 11, 2005 1:20 PM > > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org > > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? > > > > > > First off, there's no possible way my cache would "fill" the '/' > > partition. There's a cache s

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Rodrigo A B Freire
ore disks isn't an option). Both of them with "noatime" ;-) Best regards, Rodrigo. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? First off, there's no poss

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread D & E Radel
Thirdly, can someone PLEASE answer my question about setting "/" to 'noatime', as opposed to avoiding it by telling me how and why what I'm doing is stupid? Once again, are there pitfalls to having '/' set to 'noatime'? If your squid box is only used for Squid then there are *probably* no pi

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Robertson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:20 PM > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? > > > First off, there's no possible

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Kevin
On 10/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I mean, honestly, who would run a 146GB cache? We would. But instead we run three 73GB caches in parallel :) > Thirdly, can someone PLEASE answer my question about setting "/" to > 'noatime', as opposed to avoiding it by telling me how

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
'/' set to 'noatime'? :-) Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Joost de Heer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/11/2005 05:07 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject Re: [squid

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Joost de Heer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > What if the squid cache is stored on the "/" partition? That's a bad idea. Your cache could potentially fill up the root partition. > Wouldn't that be a hideous mistake to set "/" to 'noatime' ? Wouldn't it be a hideous mistake to put the cache on the same partition as

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
it would necessarily "speed up squid". Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Covington, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/11/2005 03:49 PM To "Squid Users" cc Subject Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? > This is more

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Covington, Chris
> This is more of a filesystem question, then it is an operating > system/distro question. Let's say one is using Squid primarily for access control. What benefits would a cache provide? Would eliminating the cache help speed up squid, assuming there is ample bandwidth? --- Chris Covington IT

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:27 AM > > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org > > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? > > Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Robertson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:27 AM > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? > Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 1

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
What if the squid cache is stored on the "/" partition? Wouldn't that be a hideous mistake to set "/" to 'noatime' ? Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/11/2005 10:07:21 AM: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is more of a filesystem question, then it is an operating system/distro question. Based on my research, the benchmarks on the web claim ReiserFS to provide up to 15-20% faster results. I've not had any time to do any benchmarking. My cache is c

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
This is more of a filesystem question, then it is an operating system/distro question. Based on my research, the benchmarks on the web claim ReiserFS to provide up to 15-20% faster results. I've not had any time to do any benchmarking. My cache is currently running on an ext3 partition running

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-10 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Sushil Deore wrote: I've tried squid on all the FC's i.e. FC-1,FC-2 & the latest is on FC-3 which works fine. Have had a couple of reports that the aufs disk I/O performance suffers on FC-3 and later using NPTL. But I have not verified this myself yet. Regards Henrik

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-08 Thread Daniel Navarro
te: > > * On 06/10/05 23:25 +1300, D & E Radel wrote: > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Bonnici Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: > >

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-08 Thread Tino Reichardt
Cc: > > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM > > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? > > > > > > >Bonnici Daniel wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, which is the best linux OS for security and to run squid?? > > >> >

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Sushil Deore
I found FC as the most convenient for squid as I am running it from a long time and so far no cribs... :) I've tried squid on all the FC's i.e. FC-1,FC-2 & the latest is on FC-3 which works fine. -- Sushil.

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Covington, Chris
> Hi, which is the best linux OS for security and to run squid?? This is a matter of opinion. Mine is that gentoo is the best for squid. emerge squid and you're all done. When updates come out for squid or it's dependencies, as with your whole installed package base aka "world" in general, you

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Becskei
d I'm only serving local clients. Rob - Original Message - From: "D & E Radel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Bonnici Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:25 Subject: Re: [s

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Ronny
e are *** D & E Radel wrote: - Original Message - From: "Askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bonnici Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 06/10/05 23:25 +1300, D & E Radel wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bonnici Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM > Subject: Re: [squid-users] W

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread D & E Radel
- Original Message - From: "Askar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bonnici Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Bonnici Daniel wrote: Hi, which is the best linux

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Askar
Bonnici Daniel wrote: Hi, which is the best linux OS for security and to run squid?? cheers Daniel www.slackware.com coz it follows KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) ;) regards Askar