Re: [squid-users] Been out of squid for 6 years, where do I start?

On 17/09/10 14:14, macpiano wrote:
>
> I used squid about 6 years ago pretty extensivley. Since I have been out of
> it I have several questions.
>
> What distro of Squid should I be using?
>

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid

> What is the Linux distro flavor that people use now? I have used Read Hat
> and Suse.

Here is a good starting point for the answer to that
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

This is top-ten OS by users, across both servers and workstations. Squid
is available for all of them, some have more recent versions than
others. distrwatch only watches the "squid" package so report an older
2.x version if the OS provides squid3 package for 3.x as well.

>
> Is a 135 gig Raid drive big enough to handle about 25 gigs of traffic a day?

Avoid RAID where possible for the actual cache drive(s). Squid is one of
the worst-case software for thrashing RAID. Some types are passable,
others are downright nightmares:
  http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/RAID

Whether a particular drive size is enough depends on the cacheability
and amount of duplication of traffic going through it. cache_dir are
easy to add or remove later.

>
> What is the best program to use to analyze the traffic as to who goes where
> etc.?

Um. The big debate these days on IRC :).
Here is a list of potentials that are known (no guarantee of being a
complete list though)

>
> Can Squid do bandwidth limiting by keyword for example those crazy apple
> updates?

Um, define "by keyword" please?

Squid nowdays has TOS/DiffServ and QoS funtionality, with a few more
delay_pools types than it did years back. They are ACL controlled so are
limited only by whatever the ACL can match (any TCP connection and HTTP
header details).

Amos

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