Re: [Sheflug] Webcache/Proxy

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi Baz,

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:55:37PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>  The server to be used has 512Mb physical RAM and 3x 9GB SCSI drives
> (possibly run in RAID 5, but I don't like that idea too much), and there
> may be a smaller drive used for / .

	Hmmm, I could do with some of that for my server running on 20
megs harddrive and 8 megs RAM :-) Small is beautiful.

>  The machine will be running Squid (with logging and monitoring tools
> like Calamaris etc), and DNS (more than likely djbDNS by D.J. Bernstein
> - http://cr.yp.to/ ). I doubt many other services will be provided from
> this machine.

	From my bookmarks:
	<http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1546/1/>
	<http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/squid_tune.html>
	<http://www.uck.uni.torun.pl/~maciek/w3cache/perf.html>

	Also, have you considered using FreeBSD? I read sometime ago
that it's really good when it comes to squidding things around...

	That should give you something to do this weekend :)

		José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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