Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: > > --- Tom Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Don't put squid on such a low spec machine. It has a relatively large > > > Is it really a resource hog ? - other than RAM and a bit of I/O I > suppose.
On a samll home network, it is not veryimprtant, but on a busy system if will use swap space extensively, slowing it down significantly. > Could you elaborate as to how using a squid will make the net slower ? Using squid on such a low-spec box would definitely add to the latency. > > >>more. In any case, you won't be able to get a decent cache going, >>because it doesn't support large drives. I set up squid to use at > > > The laptop has only 4GB hard disk I dont think squid will have a > problem with 4GB. It won't depending on the traffic flowing through it. It may prevent a cache of say 14 days being maintained if it is in excess of cache space set aside. > Pray how would I not have squid and yet configure transparent proxy ? You misunderstand. Put a high spec box behind the firewall with squid installed as a transparent proxy. Well, if you can't set up another Linux box as a proxy, try to get a little more RAM into the box at least. Tom _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
