Does anyone have any suggestions on changes from default settings for Squid 2.5-Stable13 for the following situation?
The server is forwarding just cache miss requests to an upstream parent The upstream parent is a pair of squid boxes that are configured for CARP and are accessed using DNS round-robin A T-1 needs to be crossed to get to the parent. T-1 bandwidth conservation is slightly more important than up to the minute accuracy in the cache The OS is SuSE LINUX 10, hardware is Dell PowerEdge 1400 (single 933MHz P3 CPU, 512MB RAM, 20GB IDE) The server is not a transparent cache or a router The server is not used for any other purpose other than Squid Number of users being serviced is between 200 and 300 Local network is 100MB/s switched Some settings Im already using are cache_peer (FQDN for the parent proxy pair) AUFS 8000 16 256 (cache dir) acl mynetwork src 10.0.0.0/8 always_direct allow mynetwork never_direct allow !mynetwork Any help is appreciated Thanks Bob Morrison, CNE, MCSE Network Administrator Wallingford CT Public Schools