Hi list. I've recently been given two spare servers that are to be deployed as squid caches for a network with about 300 workstations, all heavy internet users and sharing a 10MBit dedicated internet line. The idea is to have the squids proxy http and MSN messenger connections, as well as some ftp restricted to certain sites. The servers in question are one PIII 1.0GHz with 1G of RAM and 72G of raid-0 diskspace, and one PIII 1.4GHz with 512M RAM and 36G of raid-0 diskspace. Both run the latest 6.x version of FreeBSD and Squid 2.5.14_2. I have tried to configure them according to what I read in documentation and FAQ's, but I run into heavy swapping, "Unable to allocate" errors or just bad performance. It seems I'm having problems finding a good balance between performance and stability. Could someone give me some rough figures to use for cache_mem, cache_dir, L1, L2, Q1 and Q2? Would I benefit from using diskd, or should I run with normal UFS? Both servers are armed with hardware raid on 15k drives, so the disk I/O should be pretty decent. TIA -- R
