Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-14 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:52, Rodrigo A B Freire wrote: Not to mention that when a squid -k rotate is issued (or a -k reconfigure), the process may grow up to 2x the amount of its size for a few seconds... If you don't have swap enough to buffer this grow, the proxy will die

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-14 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 13.10 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1007995 12 0 4 33 -/+ buffers/cache:957 50 Swap: 1027 18

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m Swap: 1027 18 1008 You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be swapped out to disk... Ray

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.10 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side-note. Your 4x33 are set up as RAID or LVM? neither one is a good idea. http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-3.html#ss3.11 Indeed. I was making sure he wasn't raiding his squid cache. :-) if your computes has enough of memory left

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m Swap: 1027 18 1008 On 13.10 10:25, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be swapped out to disk... Linux is quite

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Kinkie
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:25 +0300, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m Swap: 1027 18 1008 You'd better disable swap on your Squid box. You don't want Squid to be swapped out to

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Rodrigo A B Freire
to allocate xxx bytes. My own (hard-learned) experience. - Original Message - From: Kinkie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Raymond A. Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:06 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? On Thu

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Thursday 13 October 2005 13:52, Rodrigo A B Freire wrote: Not to mention that when a squid -k rotate is issued (or a -k reconfigure), the process may grow up to 2x the amount of its size for a few seconds... If you don't have swap enough to buffer this grow, the proxy will die

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread trainier
kalproxy:/var/log/squid # free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1007995 12 0 4 33 -/+ buffers/cache:957 50 Swap: 1027 18 1008 I call this running low on memory.

[squid-users] squid tuning was Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-13 Thread Covington, Chris
What is it about browsing the web that's not fast enough? It could simply be that authentication routines are slowing it down. It's not slow at all. There doesn't even seem to a speed decrease without the cache at all. I was just wondering the benefits of having a cache. The architecture

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? First off, there's no possible way my cache would fill the '/' partition. There's a cache size directive in squid that's designed to limit the amount of disk space usage. Not to mention the fact that I have

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
). On a side-note. Your 4x33 are set up as RAID or LVM? Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rodrigo A B Freire [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/2005 10:52 PM To squid-users@squid-cache.org cc Subject Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? In my cache server, every

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12.10 10:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fact is, we're small enough that it hasn't sorely affected us much at all. My access log for squid grows to about 4-10 GB in a week. wow, that's very much of data transferred in a week. I made it adimently clear that I would only retain 1 weeks

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Oh yeah. I definitely see the advantages. The fact is, we're small enough that it hasn't sorely affected us much at all. My access log

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread trainier
4 33 -/+ buffers/cache:957 50 Swap: 1027 18 1008 Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12/2005 02:12 PM To squid-users@squid-cache.org cc Subject Re: [squid-users] Which

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-12 Thread Rodrigo A B Freire
diskd /usr/local/squid/var/cachee 38000 16 256 Q1=70 Q2=80 Got it? ;-) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Oh. You're running 4 seperate caches

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is more of a filesystem question, then it is an operating system/distro question. Based on my research, the benchmarks on the web claim ReiserFS to provide up to 15-20% faster results. I've not had any time to do any benchmarking. My cache is

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
What if the squid cache is stored on the / partition? Wouldn't that be a hideous mistake to set / to 'noatime' ? Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henrik Nordstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/11/2005 10:07:21 AM: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Robertson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:27 AM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Henrik Nordstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/11/2005 10:07:21 AM: On Tue, 11

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:27 AM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Henrik Nordstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/11/2005 10:07:21 AM: On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
speed up squid. Tim Rainier Information Services, Kalsec, INC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covington, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/2005 03:49 PM To Squid Users squid-users@squid-cache.org cc Subject Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? This is more of a filesystem question

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Joost de Heer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What if the squid cache is stored on the / partition? That's a bad idea. Your cache could potentially fill up the root partition. Wouldn't that be a hideous mistake to set / to 'noatime' ? Wouldn't it be a hideous mistake to put the cache on the same partition as /?

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread trainier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joost de Heer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/11/2005 05:07 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What if the squid cache is stored on the / partition

RE: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Robertson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:20 PM To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? First off, there's no possible way my cache would fill the '/' partition

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-11 Thread D E Radel
Thirdly, can someone PLEASE answer my question about setting / to 'noatime', as opposed to avoiding it by telling me how and why what I'm doing is stupid? Once again, are there pitfalls to having '/' set to 'noatime'? If your squid box is only used for Squid then there are *probably* no

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-10 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Sushil Deore wrote: I've tried squid on all the FC's i.e. FC-1,FC-2 the latest is on FC-3 which works fine. Have had a couple of reports that the aufs disk I/O performance suffers on FC-3 and later using NPTL. But I have not verified this myself yet. Regards Henrik

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-08 Thread Tino Reichardt
-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Bonnici Daniel wrote: Hi, which is the best linux OS for security and to run squid?? cheers Daniel www.slackware.com coz it follows KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) ;) Debian, apt-get install squid. :-) FreeBSD

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-08 Thread Daniel Navarro
23:25 +1300, D E Radel wrote: - Original Message - From: Askar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bonnici Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Bonnici

Re(2): [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-07 Thread Bonnici Daniel
What is FC?? Sushil Deore (06/10/2005 19:04): I found FC as the most convenient for squid as I am running it from a long time and so far no cribs... :) I've tried squid on all the FC's i.e. FC-1,FC-2 the latest is on FC-3 which works fine. -- Sushil.

Re: Re(2): [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-07 Thread Sushil Deore
FC - Fedora Core -- Sushil. On 7 Oct 2005, Bonnici Daniel wrote: What is FC?? Sushil Deore (06/10/2005 19:04): I found FC as the most convenient for squid as I am running it from a long time and so far no cribs... :) I've tried squid on all the FC's i.e. FC-1,FC-2 the

Re: Re(2): [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-07 Thread Maccy
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Bonnici Daniel wrote: What is FC?? Fedora Core. http://fedora.redhat.com Maccy

AW: Re(2): [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-07 Thread Werner.Rost
What is FC?? FC is a german football club: FC Köln (cologne).

[squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Bonnici Daniel
Hi, which is the best linux OS for security and to run squid?? cheers Daniel

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Askar
Bonnici Daniel wrote: Hi, which is the best linux OS for security and to run squid?? cheers Daniel www.slackware.com coz it follows KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) ;) regards Askar

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread D E Radel
- Original Message - From: Askar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bonnici Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Bonnici Daniel wrote: Hi, which is the best linux OS

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 06/10/05 23:25 +1300, D E Radel wrote: - Original Message - From: Askar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bonnici Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid? Bonnici

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Ronny
are *** D E Radel wrote: - Original Message - From: Askar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bonnici Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Becskei
serving local clients. Rob - Original Message - From: D E Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Askar [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bonnici Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:25 Subject: Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Covington, Chris
Hi, which is the best linux OS for security and to run squid?? This is a matter of opinion. Mine is that gentoo is the best for squid. emerge squid and you're all done. When updates come out for squid or it's dependencies, as with your whole installed package base aka world in general, you

Re: [squid-users] Which the best OS for Squid?

2005-10-06 Thread Sushil Deore
I found FC as the most convenient for squid as I am running it from a long time and so far no cribs... :) I've tried squid on all the FC's i.e. FC-1,FC-2 the latest is on FC-3 which works fine. -- Sushil.