Re: [Sheflug] Squid disk space

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:00:24AM -0000, Graham Cox wrote:
> I'm running a linux box to connect my houses internal network to the
> internet, and it works very well. What I'm considering doing now is sticking
> a copy of squid on it to help speed up web browsing, because then pages that
> people look at a lot won't need to be re-downloaded each and every time.

	Have you considered using wwwoofle (I might have got the
spelling wrong :D)? It's suppossed to cater for that sort of home dialup
kind of cache thingy. It's easy to set up for your LAN, and you can pipe
it through junkbuster to get rid of ads and fluff like that.

> The problem that I have is that there isn't much disk space in the box(1.3GB
> in total, over two drives. Most free on a single drive is 161MB), and I was
> wondering if anyone had any idea as to how large the cache would get if 5
> people were using it.

	WWWoffle (new spelling, as I can't be sure of it :D) lets me put
limits on the amount of disk space (I seem to remember). There's a good
description on the homepage <http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/>

	(so it was wwwoffle, then :D)

	Hope you find this suggestion useful,
	José
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