On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Shunsuke Masuda wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I'm planning to set up a web cache box by squid
| for 20 clients of Windows95 connected via 10BASE-T ethernet.
|
| Could you please tell me how the box will be?
| I mean, how many RAMs are required? or what kind of CPU
| is needed?
|
| Currently, I can make one machine dedicated to web caching.
| That machine is:
| Pentium 90Mhz
| Ram 16MB
| IDE HD 800MB
| PCI slots are available
|
| Squid will be run on software-updated FreeBSD-3.1 with
| its cache directory mounted as async and noatime in order
| to gain more performance.
|
| Is it enough to add RAMs to 80MB and use a 2GB SCSI disk with a PCI
| SCSI card?
| If it is not, I must ask school staffs for more money to assemble
| another machine.
|
This should work fine!
| These clients are going to be used in a class where most students
| are unfamiliar with web browsing. Besides, teachers don't know
| Unix as well as what is the "web cache".
| According to their plan, those clients will be connected to the
| internet via a 128Kbps-ISDN dialup router. I thought a web cache
| was needed.
|
Depending on how you are set up, this really isnt' needed, but it can help..
