It depends on the usage pattern of your users.
The best way to gauge how your system is performing is to graph statistics -
graph SNMP statistics from Squid and system statistics via something like
munin. Watch for memory, CPU and disk usage. You'll find you'll hit
a limitation pretty quickly.
Adrian
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007, Monah Baki wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running squid 2.6 stable 16 on a Pentium III 500Mhz with 512MB
> RAM, IDE HDD, installed FreeBSD 6.3 with the following:
>
> --enable-storeio=ufs,diskd,null --enable-underscores --with-large-
> files --enable-large-cache-files --enable-delay-pools --disable-ident-
> lookups --enable-snmp --enable-removal-policies --enable-async-io --
> enable-kqueue
>
> Added into the /boot/loader.conf:
>
> kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 32768
> kern.maxfiles=65536
> kern.maxfilesperproc=32768
> net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535
>
>
> Compiled kernel with these options:
> options SHMSEG=16
> options SHMMNI=32
> options SHMMAX=2097152
> options SHMALL=4096
> options MAXFILES=8192
>
>
> I'm also running Dans Guardian on it too.
>
> My question is approximately how many users can I proxy for?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking
>
>
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