> > I was wondering if anyone would care to share some ideas on > how to tune > squid for a small network appliance. We have customized > OpenBSD to run > on a Soekris net4801 (http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm), which has a > 266 MHz 586 class processor, 128MB of RAM and a 30GB (15GB of > which are > available to squid) laptop size drive. These boxes are currently > router/firewall/VPN/transparent proxies for remote offices with about > 15-20 employees on average. I also plan on attempting to add Snort to > that list of services in the near future. How would you tune > squid for > this hardware and scenario? > Some guidelines contained in : http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200503/0829.html You seem to very low on RAM though , even for a minimal squid configuration. M.