if you are going for a dedicated squid box try to
create a separate cache partition of 10 or more so GB
Also try to read freebsd handbook available on
internet
--- yance kowara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am a squid newbie trying to setup a squid server
> on FreeBSD 4.10.
>
> Hardware specs:
> PIII 800Mhz
> 256 MB SDRAM
> 80 Gb HDD IDE
>
> We have around 70 concurent users and a 2Mb ADSL.
>
> The box is only functioning as a caching server.
>
> I have done some OS tuning following the book "Squid
> - definitive
> guide". However, I am still confused on determining
> the size of
> cache_dir and cache_mem given the total physical
> memory that I have and
> the size of available hard disk.
>
> I will be utlising diskd.
>
> Any suggestion on the optimum size of cache_dir,
> cache_mem, and Q1 Q2?
>
> Is there any use of installing GNU-malloc?
>
> Users are roughly downloading 20-25GB per month.
>
> Thank you in advance for the advice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yance
>
>
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