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On 13 October 2005 19:30, Gentoo Shadow wrote: |
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> dear friends, |
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> i have a small Internet cafe in my home town. so it powered by a 128Kbps |
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> leased line. but its speed is vary from time to time. so i decide to deploy |
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> a squid-cache server. i already have a spare p3 800Mhz,256MB SD-RAM,40GB |
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> 7200rpm hdd machine. so |
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> 1) is this configurations enough for my deployment? if not pls advice me to |
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> implement a good cache server. |
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That box should do it. I would add more ram, though. As much as you can fit |
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into it. The more squid can cache in ram, the faster it is. |
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> 2) is it possible to take an advantage by deploying a squid-cache server |
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> for an Internet cafe? |
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Depending on your users habits, you will save between 5 and 30% of your |
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traffic. You have to bear in mind, though, that a large number of the most |
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popular web sites are non-cacheable. News sites, for instance. |
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Uwe |
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95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software |
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developers. - Linus Torvalds |
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http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) |
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