[squid-users] three questions on performance and forward proxying

Ive built what I hope to be a decent loadout for use in a small company
using Squid and SquidGuard on a linux box.

With some google and list searching I found some good methods to increase
performance to the load (like using reiserfs on certain partitions).

Is there a config file example for high performance? Ive seen some
projects include multiple conf files in the source (maybe its because this
is RedHat) and sometimes there is a config file for high performance.

Second, this proxy will not be talking to any other caches, it is behind
the company firewall and I think I turned it off correctly (I wont know
until I sniff the lab traffic).

Is there a faq entry I am missing on disabling this so I know I set it up
correctly? Ive went over the current faq a few times and dont see this.


Third (ok i counted and this is more than three questions), after this
system is baselined, the next phase will be to also
install Privoxy on the system. Is there a recommended order? ie should
privoxy hand-off to squid or vice-versa?

I read this faq entry
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-4.html#ss4.9

but it says "First, you need to give Squid a parent cache. Second, you
need to tell Squid it can not connect directly to origin servers"

What about if Squid, SquidGuard and Privoxy are all on the same box? How
would the configuration be done?


thanks!

Greg