It depends on the usage pattern of your users. The best way to gauge how your system is performing is to graph statistics - graph SNMP statistics from Squid and system statistics via something like munin. Watch for memory, CPU and disk usage. You'll find you'll hit a limitation pretty quickly. Adrian On Sun, Nov 25, 2007, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running squid 2.6 stable 16 on a Pentium III 500Mhz with 512MB > RAM, IDE HDD, installed FreeBSD 6.3 with the following: > > --enable-storeio=ufs,diskd,null --enable-underscores --with-large- > files --enable-large-cache-files --enable-delay-pools --disable-ident- > lookups --enable-snmp --enable-removal-policies --enable-async-io -- > enable-kqueue > > Added into the /boot/loader.conf: > > kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 32768 > kern.maxfiles=65536 > kern.maxfilesperproc=32768 > net.inet.ip.portrange.last: 65535 > > > Compiled kernel with these options: > options SHMSEG=16 > options SHMMNI=32 > options SHMMAX=2097152 > options SHMALL=4096 > options MAXFILES=8192 > > > I'm also running Dans Guardian on it too. > > My question is approximately how many users can I proxy for? > > > Thanks > > > BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking > > -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
