On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I am switching my modperl site to squid in httpd acclerator mode
> and everything works as advertised, but was very surprised to find
> squid 10x slower than apache on a cached 6k gif as measured by
> apache bench... 100 requests/second vs almost 1000 for apache.
I've experienced the same results with accelerating small static files.
However, we still use squid on our site (www.eziba.com) because our httpd
processes are so heavy, and to save a trip to the database for documents
that are cachable, such as product images. We've found that the net
performance gain to be noticeable. However, if all you are serving is
static files that live on the same tier as the apache server, you'll
probably be better of without squid.
On that topic, is there an alternative to squid? We are using it
exclusively as an accelerator, and don't need 90% of it's admittedly
impressive functionality. Is there anything designed exclusively for this
purpose? Perhaps a modperl module that implements caching of files based
on Expires headers?
-DeWitt
