Re: system req's

He means a 3GB cache. Really. Have another dried frog pill, Mike.

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Michael Pelletier wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, John Rudick wrote:
>
> > I am proposing to my managment that we use squid for dns and webcaching
> > at each of our major hub sites. I've have not been able to determine a
> > strong set of system requirements for running squid on a bsdi machine.
> > Typically an intel p166 w/32 mb of ram, 3.2MB cache, and a 2GB HD does
> > real well as a firewall for us. Any ideas on how I can adequately
> > predict my system requirements for squid?
>
> We're running 3MB cache with the VM version, and Squid routinely consumes
> around 60MB of memory including around 20MB of hot object cache in the VM
> version. 32MB won't cut it. Squid has to keep a memory index of all
> cache objects, and needs a certain number of bytes per object. The larger
> your cache, the higher the baseline memory consumption.
>
> Memory's cheap as dirt these days, go for a full 256MB or more. An 128MB
> EDO DIMM around here is only $405, probably cheaper out in San Diego.
>
> The CPU is not a limiting factor, I have a P-133 and handle around 110,000
> requests per day, and Squid rarely exceeds 2-3% cpu.
>
> -Mike Pelletier.

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