Read this: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/High-Performance-Web-Caching-With-Squid
I think this machine is not suitable for a bigger production environment - it wont hold enough disks.
If you do a demo, you will probably have only a couple of clients? No need to tune the cache in this case.
Otherwise I would suggest reiserfs on the cachedisk/partition. I would increase cache_mem and cache_dir size moderately.
How do you define good impression? E.g. using delay pools, redirectors like squidGuard or authentication will probably impress people,
but it is not really performance tuning...
Regards, Hendrik.
Jerry Norton wrote:
Hello all,
I am new to squid and very impressed so far. I'm feeling a little swamped though as I'm on a timeline to demo this for production. I have the O'Reilly Squid book and have read through the first few chapters and skimmed the rest. With so many config options, I was hoping I could run my server specs by you all to get some suggestions on tuning for performance. I'm just using the defaults currently.
Server is a Compaq DL360, 800mhz, 1gb RAM, 9gb HDD.
Anyone suggest any variables that I can change from the defaults and
why? Again I'm just learning but I really need to make a good impression
fast.
Thanks everyone for your help,
..................................................... Jerry Norton broadGap Technologies (801)763-8056 / (877)broadgap 802 East Bamberger Drive - American Fork - UT - 84003 .....................................................
