Thanks Serassio and Adam for your feedback. I look briefly at Samba 3.0 and it looks like it will do the job for me. I need to read a little more about it to be able to configure it.
As Serassio pointed out WAN bandwidth would be my bottleneck. I'm painfully aware of this fact: but unfortunately bandwidth isn't readily available and the little available is quite expensive in where this LAN is. Any recommendation on what hardware can comfortably handle 30-50 clients? As you can see I'm counting on Squid to solve a little of my bandwidth problem. I wouldn't want Squid to become the bottleneck instead so I don't mind investing in a slightly higher performance hardware for Squid if that would help. Thanks again for your response. -----Original Message----- From: Serassio Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:47 AM To: Cafe Admin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid NT vs. Squid Linux Hi, At 04.33 15/11/2003, Cafe Admin wrote: >Hi All, >Does any one know if there is any noticeable peformance difference between >Squid on Windows 2000 Server and on RedHat Linux 9? I'm currently running >2.5-Stable3 on a dedicated RH9 box, and I know my hardware is being >underutlized (2.0GHz Xeon , 2x10k RPM SCSI, 640MB, 1000Mbps NIC). I'm >thinking about converting the machine to Windows File Server/PDC/SquidNT. >Serving 30 clients on 100MB network (who are constantly surfing the Net) >with 256Kbps connection to the Internet. As always thanks for your feedback. In the Windows port there are still some limitations: - Max. 2048 File Descriptors, so more than 100 concurrent client cannot be safely supported - The internal socket loop is select() based vs poll() or better on Unix/Linux - Transparent proxy is not available - Some async FS storage are not available (COSS, diskd) So currently I expect always better performance from a Linux/Unix based Squid. In Your configuration I think that major bottleneck can be the line speed: today an Internet bandwidth of 256 Kbit/s for 30 concurrent web client can be very low. Regards Guido - ======================================================== Guido Serassio Acme Consulting S.r.l. Via Gorizia, 69 10136 - Torino - ITALY Tel. : +39.011.3249426 Fax. : +39.011.3293665 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.acmeconsulting.it/
