Re: Required machine spec. for 20 clients?

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Shunsuke Masuda wrote:

 | Hello,
 |
 | I'm planning to set up a web cache box by squid
 | for 20 clients of Windows95 connected via 10BASE-T ethernet.
 |
 | Could you please tell me how the box will be?
 | I mean, how many RAMs are required? or what kind of CPU
 | is needed?
 |
 | Currently, I can make one machine dedicated to web caching.
 | That machine is:
 | Pentium 90Mhz
 | Ram 16MB
 | IDE HD 800MB
 | PCI slots are available
 |
 | Squid will be run on software-updated FreeBSD-3.1 with
 | its cache directory mounted as async and noatime in order
 | to gain more performance.
 |
 | Is it enough to add RAMs to 80MB and use a 2GB SCSI disk with a PCI
 | SCSI card?
 | If it is not, I must ask school staffs for more money to assemble
 | another machine.
 |

This should work fine!

 | These clients are going to be used in a class where most students
 | are unfamiliar with web browsing. Besides, teachers don't know
 | Unix as well as what is the "web cache".
 | According to their plan, those clients will be connected to the
 | internet via a 128Kbps-ISDN dialup router. I thought a web cache
 | was needed.
 |

Depending on how you are set up, this really isnt' needed, but it can help..
Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 17:30:07 MST