Re: squid advice pls
--- Steven Jones <Steven.Jones@vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
> Can anyone point me at or suggest good staring points for the squid
> configuration pls?
www.squid-cache.org is the main site. You might want to look here as well:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/adam.html
(very very very brief)
> Worthwhile tweaks to Debian to get the most out of it?
Debian has nothing more to do with squid once it has installed the
packages.
> I need to build this box on Monday so I am starting from a clean slate,
> I also have noticed that memory use seems to creep up over time, after
> say 1 ~ 2 weeks of hard use, Squid just seems to gradually take more and
> more RAM until its exhausted and a restart is needed...
This is configurable in squid via the tags, listed in (and documented)
/etc/squid/squid.conf. This file is very well documented.
-- Thomas Adam
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