Thanks, guys. This is a small network I guess. I'll leave it with one NIC. Who knows what 300 kids with laptops will be doing. I see Hit Ratio mentioned quite a bit. Can somebody give me good performance tuning link/tips etc for Squid? I have default install on Debian. I could probably fine tune it to make sure that it performs a little better. Thanks again. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:54 AM, George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: >>[...] >> For a faster internal connection and slower Internet connection you can >> look towards raising the Hit Ratio' probably the byte hits specifically. >> That will drop the load on the Internet line and make the whole network >> appear faster to users. The holy grail for forward proxies seems to be 50%, >> with reality coming in between 20% and 45% depending on your clients and >> storage space. > > For what it's worth, at Large Telco Smartphone Provider Which Will Not > Be Named, all of our Squids routinely exceeded 40%, with many of them > over 50% for a whole day or so. The only major burps there were > having to reboot them for now-fixed internal errors. > > That was 1m active users, though... > > > -- > -george william herbert > george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx >
