Configuration: Squid

Equipment

Description	Price (US$)
Squid Squid 2.4.DEVEL2 FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE 2xPentium III 450Mz 6x8GB 10,000RPM Disks 1x6GB IDE 10,000RPM Disk 1xIntel Pro 10/100 NIC 512MB RAM	4210
3Com Hub TP800 (8port 100Mbit)	110

Configuration changes

• disabled half closed clients
• memory pools disabled
• cache_mem 128MB
• no store, access logs
• cache_swap_low 90, high 98
• --enable-diskd
• --enable-leakfinder (no effect)
• reduced SCSI delay at boot time to 0.5sec
• no kernel tracing
• MBUFCLUSTERS 32K
• enabled SMP
• deleted unused drivers / devices / services
• tuned shared memory settings
• noatime option for cache disks

Pictures

	Duane Wessels