Proxy server

Ed K. ed at hp.uab.edu
Fri Jun 18 13:36:52 UTC 2004


On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Srinivasan S wrote:
> Hi

> Can some one please recommend a small proxy server that I can run on Fedora Core 2.  My 
> box  is not powerful enough and my requirements not big enough to run Squid.
>
> I currently run tinyproxy (from sourceforge) on a cable modem connection and find that 
>  its very slow.  Any recommendations/links would be helpful.
>
> Regards
> Srini

I would use squid, and change the cach_dir line to use a smaller cache. You can get the 
memory footprint of squid to be as small as 32MB.

I used squid for years on an AMD K6-400 with 128MB of RAM.

ed

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