RE: Required machine spec. for 20 clients?

[Nottingham, Mark (Australia)]

2G disk, 80M RAM should be more than enough for 20 users. Good luck!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shunsuke Masuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 10:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Required machine spec. for 20 clients?
> 
> 
> 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 is the first time for me to set up a cache box for
> many clients as 20, so that I'd like to know before starting.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> I'm afraid if I have made some mistakes in my English writing.
>  
> Thank you,
> Shunsuke Masuda
> 
>