Re: [squid-users] Performance of Squid ?

Noc Phibee schrieb:

> Hi
>
> anyone can say me what is the best choice in equipment for put a Squid
> with Active Directory authentification + squidguard for:
>
> for 700 simultaneous user

Use 1 mainstream pc . whatever. put one gig of ram and you're done.

> and
> for 5000 simultaneous user
>
use 1 high end machine with a lot of ram, say 4 GB, and a fast disk
array for the cache.

> How many server you thinks that i put for best performance ?

1. (and maybe one backup machine)
if you do not have a very fast uplink the machine won't be the bottleneck.

> he have a howto for squid in large configuration ?

There are some hints in the mail archives, but the numbers you are
naming are not "large".

> we can add a Antivirus scan of the flow ?
>
Yes. Have a look at the related software section of the squid homepage.
There are several approaches to virus scanning depending on what you
want to scan with which virus scanner.

JC
Received on Wed Nov 22 2006 - 14:25:42 MST