[squid-users] Squid v/s Apache's reverse proxy

2011-05-10 Thread Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB)
We are evaluating a vendor who claims that their Apache proxy based solution performs better than Squid because squid doesn't scale on a multi-cpu / multi core servers whereas apache does scale nicely. Their tests show squid version 2.7 to perform at 2000 requests/sec while the apache solution perf

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid Cache flush

2011-04-25 Thread Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB)
011 5:29 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: >> >> On 21/04/2011 1:46 PM, Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB) wrote: >>> >>> If you are thinking that is is dynamic content with query strings then >>> it's not the case. the urls will look like a directory structured >

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid Cache flush

2011-04-21 Thread Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB)
erly. > > Don't forget that Squid and the web server can talk to each other without > actually shipping content. The HTTP protocol has lots of different messages > that can be quickly exchanged to make decisions about whether squid actually > needs new content. > > > Ron &g

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid Cache flush

2011-04-21 Thread Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB)
e > URL being the same. > > What exactly would cause you to trigger a flush of the cache? > > Ron > > > On 21/04/2011 11:30 AM, Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB) wrote: >> >> I would rather not do a restart of anything unless absolutely required >> >> Here are the

Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid Cache flush

2011-04-21 Thread Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB)
when in case of an emergency. Cache-control headers are fine and will work in case of limited number of objects. Thanks JB On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:14:55 -0400, Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB) wrote: >> >> I am looking to deploy Squ

[squid-users] Re: Squid Cache flush

2011-04-19 Thread Jawahar Balakrishnan (JB)
I am looking to deploy Squid as a reverse proxy and i had couple of questions. We currrently use Bluecoat and Sun Web proxy and i am able to do the following things 1) How would i flush objects from cache? 2) Can i flush the entire cache without restarting Squid? 3) Can i set the configuration to