Configuring an older server for speed...

[Wojciech Puchar]

> less capable whitebox. One of the big issues I've had has manifested
> itself recently - we've moved from a T1 to a DS3, and while overall
> throughput has increased dramatically, people are now complaining that
> "the Internet is slow", which I've found is all down to initial page
> load. I'm pursuing optimizing squid elsewhere, and want to focus on
> getting this box as fast as I reasonably can before sticking squid on
> it. I've got more RAM to put into it - I'd be stealing from another
> machine that's little used, but I should be able to get it to 4gb RAM.

you need only as much ram as to make squid database fit.

roughly 7-8MB/GB storage, with 5 18GB disks it's <1GB, still less if you 
allow big files to be cached