One solution to this problem is to put a sniffer on your network and capture http traffic for a week. That will let you know how much http downloads occur in a week's time period. From there you can figure out how much space to allow for caching, memory, etc. This is also a good benchmark because then you can perform the same data capture after your proxy is installed and see what kind of bandwidth savings is occuring. Your ISP may also be able to provide you some sort of report as to how much http traffic you are using each week. Peak days, hours, etc.
Answering your question is hard, because your 100 users may seldom use the internet, or they may all be engineers or graphic designers (or IT folks) who might be downloading large software patches, images, or cad drawings. Chris Perreault -----Original Message----- From: Zen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [squid-users] Hardware Requirements Hello All, Please give me solution for the below. 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 much memory should I allocate for the squid to handle all these requests? Looking forward for your solution Thanks Zen.
