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Originally Posted by Crypt
Having looked into some stuff I have to decide if the machine I have up and running dansguardian with a blacklist is going to be enough for the 40 to 50 users we have. The system specs are a P3 1.4Ghz with 1.5GB RAM with just over 9 GB's used on a 80GB drive
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Squid and DansGuardian love RAM. The more RAM you can put into the system, the less the system will be noticed by the end-users. DansGuardian also loves CPU. The more CPU power (cores, processors, GHz) you can put into the box, the better.
For 50 users, you should be able to get away with just 1.5 GB of RAM. Personally, I'd try to get that as close to 4 GB (max on 32-bit systems) as possible. Then you can give 2 GB to Squid's memory cache, and leave the rest for DansGuardian to use.
Be sure to put in packet filtering rules that by-pass squid/dansguardian for the really important websites, like the ones the mechanics use. Unless these are static websites, you don't need to cache them.