squid performance

I have been reading quite a few messages on this list about file
descriptors and things that affect performance of the SQUID, could anyone
elaborate and let me know how to tweak SQUID. I am about to install a
SQUID box for several thousand students in a campus setting. There must be
a few things that I can tweak, squid and linux itself ??

I thing I am curious about is this file descriptor, I read sometime back
there is something called max.fd = some value, is that editable in
squid.conf or do I need to download the source code and edit that with the
configure script where do I find this?

any recommendations with regards to tweaking, this machine is going to be
a PIII450 with 160MB RAM and a 18 GIG SCSI 10,000 rpm seagate hd, adaptec
2940 controller, probably running mandrake.

thanks.
Received on Sun Jun 25 2000 - 09:41:39 MDT