Hi! First, the obvious question: do you intent to have "disk cache" on this squid deployment? if so, please evaluate the live of the flash card, and maybe, think about adapting a SSD instead (or, maybe, a SATA disk, the soekris net5501 actually have SATA port). Second: as for using 512MB of RAM, it depends: what else will this thing do for you? (firewall, VPN, how knows...) How many users do you intent to serve out of it? I have configured proxies with as little as 256MB RAM: no big deal, mainly: cache_memory, but I use these for small sites, say, <30 clients (authenticating from LDAP). I also have a *real* hard-drive. Oh, btw, you need to limit the disk cache size (because the more disk cache, the more ram needed). Have you thought about using a Mini-ITX board instead? (maybe, Atom-based, they are actually cheaper, and if you don't need the 4 eth ports, would be better for your purposes). I think Soekris produces really good hardware, but I find it more suited for industrial applications (or just for *the geek factor*, or when you need the *real* serial ports and the fact that you just need a 6-25Vdc power supply for it)..... the hardware is a little expensive, at >US$200 per board..... I can get a mini-itx for <US$100 (plus a "car power supply" if you want to feed the thing with just one DC voltage, around US$50 or so, you end up with a larger system with just US$150 or less). I hope this helps, Ildefonso Camargo On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz <luis.daniel.lucio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm porting squid to that little appliance. For those who dont know soekris, > it has a AMD i586 compatible CPU 512 Mhgz and 512 MB or RAM, inmy case i use > FlashCard so IO is not fast for OS and a USB for logs (little faster, not > enought). > > this box will use a proxy just to accelerate user navigation, no filtering, no > authentication. SO i wonder to know what configurations options shall i place > in order to minimize squid memory comsuption and speed it up. > > Regards, > > LD >
