If I have 100 users using the internet and i want to setup squid proxy, then
* What should be my Hardware Requirements (System speed,RAM,disk space)? * If the all the users are using the internet, then at the maximum how much requests, they will be generating per second? How should someone know this? This depends on what they do in the Internet, how fast the connection is and much more. * How much memory should I allocate for the squid to handle all these requests? You should allocate as much memrory as you need for the cache and a little bit more. Every normal hardware should be sufficient for 100 users. Buy a normal PC, if you think you need fast proxy go and buy a pc with two fast scsi disks. For beginnig try with a cache of 10 GB and 512 MB of memory, if that machine does not more than just squid. The memory depends on the size of the cache, not on the traffic. Then install squid, use squid and after 1 or 2 or 3 days take a look at the cache and the counters and adjust it. Hermann
