[plug] Fast net access via Linux server question

[Christian]

John Summerfield wrote:
> > I have a small squid cache running off a machine with 40MB and the
> > machine is doing a lot of other things as well.  You *can* get away
> > without using up too much memory for squid since all it really needs is
> > to hold the hot and in-transit objects which, on all but the busiest
> > caches, don't really need all that much memory at all.  Of course the
> > more memory the better and performance goes down the drain if you don't
> > have enough but for 10 users, it would probably be fine.
> I really think that for a small number of users, there's little benefit in
> lots of RAM; both are much faster than the modem, but the RAM isn't much
> faster than disk, especially when the real bottlenech is the 10 Mbs NICs
> you're likely to have; my didk drives range in speed from about 4
> Mbyte/sec to 16; all are faster than my 100 Mbs NIC.
> If you have a box to hand, anything from P100 & 32 Mbytes up should
> suffice (maybe even a 486, but I'd still want the 32 Mb); if you're buying
> new, the cheapest PC you can find...

I'm sorry John but I have to stop and just confirm this:  did we
actually just agree? :-)