> > Hi everybody > I want to know how configure my squid correctly I have a lot > of users like > 2000 and I would like to know what kind of machine I need to > support all my > clients and how many redirectors I need to use squidguard. >
- The cache size should be estimated around 1 week of traffic generated by this community. This however poses requirements on RAM needed (check the Squid FAQ). - Modern even light server hardware will easily handle 2000 users. My now getting older Compaq ML370 with a fairly old Linux 2.2 kernel, still laughs at our 1500 user base Much depends on the avg. http reqs/sec SQUID has to deal with. In our case that is around 45 reqs/sec during office hours which is still rather mild for SQUID. Runaway browsers and other past incidents have learned me to extrapolate that even that box + current OS can probably easily handle 3000 users - Next generation light server hw. such as the HP (what's in a name) DL380 can probably easily handle 5000 users, and is not that expensive taken into account that the rest is free (SQUID + Linux) - As for SquidGuard I had to increase the amount of redirector processes to 15 for 1500 users, to avoid 'not enough redirector' messages in cache.log. M.