Re: [squid-users] squid on moderate scales

It should do fine, depending how to squid.conf is
written. But....ding! dong!, rpm is for as you said
newbies, one should always configure from src, to have
more flexiblity and better performance.
--- Payal Rathod <payal-squid@staticky.com> wrote:

> 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
>

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Received on Mon Aug 02 2004 - 23:59:32 MDT