[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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