On Friday, September 05, 1997 11:28 AM, Frank Smith [SMTP:fsmith@spec.com]
wrote:
> Ok - consider this:
> For smaller site, the UNIX variant could be a no-cost solution. My
> squid is running on an old 486DX2-66 that was unwanted in the company.
> I installed Linux and squid (with a 400mb cache) and get about a 25-30%
> hit rate on 50k requests/day and a load average of around 0.2 or so during
> working hours.
I did about the same thing. I setup squid on a Linux box running a 486 dx4-100.
It took a while to load up squid, but once running... load was around 0.00 to
0.02 depending on the number of people hitting it.
Total cost was about 1.5 man hours.
Jordan
-- Jordan Mendelson : www.wserv.com/~jordy/ Web Services, Inc. : www.wserv.comReceived on Fri Sep 05 1997 - 09:17:23 MDT
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