Hi, A friend of mine, a lab teacher, at a college is going to install squid on her college's Mandrake 10.0 official machine. She will use the default squid-2.5 Stable4 rpm cos' she is very new to unix. The problem is that there will be around 300 students using it as a proxy server plus around 25 teachers. Students will get access to a few sites and teachers to all. Now, my question is that will the default squid bundled in the OS be able to handle all the load? The machine is big, PIV 2Ghz with 1Gb swap and fast SCSI drives with 512Mb RAM (a gift from a leading computer company). This is the first time they are using a free OS in the college and I will be giving help from outside for squid.conf. Can someone share her/his experience with this load? The server will just have a caching dns and maybe a dhcp server with the same (not sure).
Thanks a lot for the help in advance. With warm regards, -Payal
