Re: [squid-users] Been out of squid for 6 years, where do I start?

On 17/09/10 16:32, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 17/09/10 14:14, macpiano wrote:
>>
>> I used squid about 6 years ago pretty extensivley. Since I have been
>> out of
>> it I have several questions.
>>
>> What distro of Squid should I be using?
>>
>
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid
>
>> What is the Linux distro flavor that people use now? I have used Read Hat
>> and Suse.
>
> Here is a good starting point for the answer to that
> http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
>
> This is top-ten OS by users, across both servers and workstations. Squid
> is available for all of them, some have more recent versions than
> others. distrwatch only watches the "squid" package so report an older
> 2.x version if the OS provides squid3 package for 3.x as well.
>
>>
>> Is a 135 gig Raid drive big enough to handle about 25 gigs of traffic
>> a day?
>
> Avoid RAID where possible for the actual cache drive(s). Squid is one of
> the worst-case software for thrashing RAID. Some types are passable,
> others are downright nightmares:
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/RAID
>
> Whether a particular drive size is enough depends on the cacheability
> and amount of duplication of traffic going through it. cache_dir are
> easy to add or remove later.
>
>>
>> What is the best program to use to analyze the traffic as to who goes
>> where
>> etc.?
>
> Um. The big debate these days on IRC :).
> Here is a list of potentials that are known (no guarantee of being a
> complete list though)

http://www.squid-cache.org/Scripts/

Would help if I linked it :)

>>
>> Can Squid do bandwidth limiting by keyword for example those crazy apple
>> updates?
>
> Um, define "by keyword" please?
>
> Squid nowdays has TOS/DiffServ and QoS funtionality, with a few more
> delay_pools types than it did years back. They are ACL controlled so are
> limited only by whatever the ACL can match (any TCP connection and HTTP
> header details).
>

Amos

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