[squid-users] Performance tips for squid 3 (config file included)?

2010-09-17 Thread Andrei
I'm a newbie. To get Squid started all I was able to do is create the config below. This works but it feels like it could be a little faster. I have about 300 users. Are there any other options that you would recommend adding to this config file? This is my config file for Squid 3.0 on Debian, P4,

Re: [squid-users] Performance tips for squid 3 (config file included)?

2010-09-20 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 18/09/10 06:00, Andrei wrote: I'm a newbie. To get Squid started all I was able to do is create the config below. This works but it feels like it could be a little faster. I have about 300 users. Are there any other options that you would recommend adding to this config file? This is my config

Re: [squid-users] Performance tips for squid 3 (config file included)?

2010-09-20 Thread Andrei
Thank you so much! I'm not sure if I understood everything, but here is what I have so far. 1) 1GB of RAM in this machine (P4, 40GB IDE, 1GB RAM). 2) Running Squid 3.1.3 now :-) 3) Not sure what you meant with AUFS. Does this need to be changed? cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid3 7000 16 256 4) Rand

Re: [squid-users] Performance tips for squid 3 (config file included)?

2010-09-20 Thread Amos Jeffries
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:31:45 -0700, Andrei wrote: > Thank you so much! I'm not sure if I understood everything, but here > is what I have so far. > > 1) 1GB of RAM in this machine (P4, 40GB IDE, 1GB RAM). > 2) Running Squid 3.1.3 now :-) > 3) Not sure what you meant with AUFS. Does this need to

Re: [squid-users] Performance tips for squid 3 (config file included)?

2010-09-21 Thread Andrei
>> 5) No NATing is done on this machine. > > Ah, "transparent" flag does not means what you think then. > > In Squid-3.2 and older it means "traffic arriving at this port has been > redirected here via NAT in the firewall". > > What did you actually want? I have 300 kids with laptops. It would be

Re: [squid-users] Performance tips for squid 3 (config file included)?

2010-09-21 Thread Amos Jeffries
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:48:07 -0700, Andrei wrote: >>> 5) No NATing is done on this machine. >> >> Ah, "transparent" flag does not means what you think then. >> >> In Squid-3.2 and older it means "traffic arriving at this port has been >> redirected here via NAT in the firewall". >> >> What did you