Re: [squid-users] Squid and OS tuning

Hi,

> Dear Users.
> i'm planning to build a proxy server and it will be serving 10k of
> users/clients,
> it's a AMD X2 3800 AM2 and currently installed RAM are 4Gigs, and 2
>
> SATA HDD 300GB
> and running FreeBSD 6.2STABLE am64 build.
> i would like to ask for guidance how to build and optimized this proxy
>
> server ( OS base or Squid base )
> kindly one of you share the tips/tricks regarding this problems.
>

Having a squid running on FreeBSD, I use the following compile option :
--enable-dl-malloc --enable-time-hack --disable-select --disable-poll --enable-kqueue
For caching, I believe it's a good idea to enable diskd.

I'm also interested in sharing various optimization tips for Squid on FreeBSD ;-)

>
> TIA
>
> Zen

Regards,

-- 
Julien