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

Thanks for the information and fast response! Any info on my last few
questions?

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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?
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, squiduser wrote:
>
> > 20-50 http requests per second (our users shouldnt be doing much browsing
> > other than vendor and partner sites although we allow for occasional
> > personal use to news sites, banking, etc).
>
> Ok, then performance tuning is not the first priority as any standard
> install with no tuning at all is fully capable of these speeds.
>
> > I dont have enough data yet for
> > a good Mbps as I just built their firewall log analysis and reporting box
> > a few weeks ago. So I have enough data for a 'wag' based on a total
> > transfer of 780 MB/day.
>
> daily totals is hard to translate to Mbps, but 780 MB/day is very little.
>
> > The system is a P4 2.2 ghz with 1 GB ram and 3 7200 rpm disks. 1 disk for
> > the os, the other 2 for /var/log/squid (basically modified older Dell GX
> > 240s that have been warehoused due to new systems being bought)
>
> Total overkill box for the requirements you have given. A Via 500Mhz with
> a single 4200 rpm laptop drive can handle the above vith only a little
> tuning. Your box should not need to be even looked at.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>