Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup

2005-06-15 Thread Jason Williams
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 14.06 11:39, Jason Williams wrote: I do have a 'desktop' type box with the following specs on it: -1.8ghz Athlon CPU -1gig DDR Ram -1 80 gig IDE drive. Nothing fancy, but it might work. I'd like a 1U solution, but if this fits the bill, it

Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup

2005-06-14 Thread Jason Williams
Denis Vlasenko wrote: IMHO: ~1GHz CPU will be enough. The bigger your disk cache, the more RAM you'll need. My on-disk cache size is 377,400,741, RAM usage is: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 20383 squid 16 0 27548 22M 800 S 0.0 9.2 43:05

Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup

2005-06-10 Thread Jason Williams
Kevin wrote: Your choice of hardware will be dictated to a great extent by your choice of operating system, and might also be influenced by your budget and your employer -- in my case, corporate purchasing mandates that we we buy from Dell, so I use the Dell PE1850 for "smaller" critical boxes.

Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup

2005-06-10 Thread Jason Williams
r you find most attractive. Keep in mind that IDE disks rarely can be hotswapped. And last, make a fictional disk failure.. Do you know what to do if a disk fails? How would you even know it has failed if the system is still running just fine? Some questions to keep in mind.. :) /Andreas Jason

[squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my setup

2005-06-10 Thread Jason Williams
Greetings everyone. After a long hard fought battle, I finally have received permission to run squid on our network. I've always run squid on my home network (with great success) and now im looking to do it in the corporate world. With that, I was hoping to get some type of idea on hardware ne

[squid-users] Question on Squid's capabilities

2004-05-17 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. We are in the process of deciding on a web proxy to use for our company here. I have convinced the management here to let me put up a squid server and have all of our users go through the squid server. They asked a couple of questions regarding the capability of squid and I wasn

Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my platform

2004-04-07 Thread Jason Williams
Is this all your users is doing all the time? Well, we do have a lot of web interfaces that our vendors use. Mix that in with that these users surf as well. However, a big part of what I want to implement will restrict where users can and cannot go. Lets try to reformulate the problem to someth

Re: [squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my platform

2004-04-06 Thread Jason Williams
Pretty small numbers, unless these users are very heavily surfing with high speed connectivity. Well, we do a lot of connecting to vendor web sites that have web interfaces that we use. What kind of users? Not sure what you mean here, but a big part of our company uses the internet for a variet

[squid-users] Recommended Hardware for my platform

2004-04-06 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I have convinced upper management here to let me put up a squid server to act as a web proxy as well as filter out web sites that we do not want our users to visit. With that in mind, im really looking forward to rolling this out. I just have a coulple of questions in regards t

[squid-users] New to Squid: Few questions on capability

2004-04-02 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I'm new to the Squid mailing list here. Although I have a little bit of experience working with squid in the past, I haven't in awhile and was hoping to get some feedback on a couple of questions about capability options of squid. We are looking to deploy a type of proxy server