[tech] Squid
David Manchester
mustang at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Dec 16 19:17:18 WST 1999
> > On Dec 16, Grahame Bowland scrawled :
>
> > UCC needs a Squid server. For this reason I will be
> > decomissioning mermaid in three minutes unless someone
> > sends me an email telling me not to. I don't recall
> > it doing anything important.
> >
> sounds cool ;)
Mermaid's about the minimum hardware we'd want for a reasonable
squid machine.
> > Having observed Leighton setting it up, it looks like a
> > challenge. Anyone mind if I make the 486 we had donated with
> > a SCSI harddrive our new Squid box? I'll backup the current
> > harddrive contents as I remember there being some software
> > of use.
Don't bother unless its got >32MB of RAM, Graham - squid sucks without
RAM.
> it's a good start, to learn on. For serious work, a good squid server need
> fast I/O. ie good scsi, and 100 MBit ether.
> however, having something *working* is insanely better than drooling over
> something that's yet to appear.
Definately. IF we relegated Scarlet to NFS, we could stick squid on another
spindle or two - use some of those 300MB drives we scored.
Cheers
/dave
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