[Gllug] wwwoffle or squid? (or something else?)

[John Edwards]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:20:52PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In my house we are three people that connects to Internet via a
> dedicated machine running debian potato. The only services running is
> currently diald (and obviosly sshd ;). This is a pentium 75 with 24
> megabytes of ram and about a gigabyte disk free. I think it is about
> time for it to start pulling it's own weight around here, so I want to
> set up an http proxy/cache and wanted to know whether anybody has any
> opinions. 
> 
> I have heard rumours about squid being the best of the best, but I was
> thinking that maybe wwwoffle is better in my case since it is targeted
> specifically towards dialup systems. 
> 
> Regards,
> Stig

Hi
Squid has a reputation as a resource hog, but you can adjust the RAM 
usage in the conf file. wwwoffle has some nice features such as the 
ability to use the files in the cache when the internet connection is 
down, and has a web interface for configuration. I used to use it on 
a home network but I found it occasionally gave errors connecting to 
some slow sites (eg xoom.com), so switched to squid.

It's not too hard to setup both and then see which is best for you.

And installing some more RAM would be very helpful, as it can avoid 
having to swap out processes disk which will drag the performance 
down something rotten.

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