Re: [squid-users] Bandwidth savings?

Nick Duda, on 11/02/2007 10:24 PM [GMT+500], wrote :
> Funny you bring that up....because we did that unintensional some time
> back...
>
> Basically, we have 4 T1's in a brach office, bonded as a multilink
> (6mb). Based on this one office bandwidth going out is on average 4.5mb
> used with Squid in place. One day we had to make some changes and
> stopped serving from the cache...we flatlined at 6mb and the office came
> to a scretching halt.
>
> It was at that point I said, hey I can tell you that the proxy is saving
> you at a min. 1.5mb of bandwidth LOL. I then went with the cacti
> templates and I get on average 4-5mb saved, some days up to 8mb!
>

Also look into 'vnstat' a very nice console application is a network
traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for
the selected interface(s)

http://humdi.net/vnstat/

Regards
Received on Fri Nov 02 2007 - 11:53:38 MDT