That's because there's no best choice or clear recommendation. Squid will perform best on any modern unix-like operating system. Probably the fastest setuo could be obtained on a top-of-the-line AIX Power6 box. But those things cost millions of euros :-)
You can probably get the best bang-for-buck on Intel boxes running Linux (any distribution) or FreeBSD. Which is in essence what the wiki article says :-) On 10/14/09, Paul Khadra <[email protected]> wrote: > > thank you for your reply, however squid will work on a lot of operating > systems but I think that the maximum throughput will be different on > different operating systems. There is no clear recommendations about this > subject. > > > > > > Kinkie wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >> please check http://wiki.squid-cache.org/BestOsForSquid out >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Paul Khadra <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> We are planning to install squid on a server where we expect to push 100 >>> mbps - 200 mbps (if possible). >>> >>> Which OS is best tested with squid and which one can give the highest >>> performance ? >>> >>> Thank you, Paul >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Operating-System-that-give-best-performance-on-Squid-tp25888502p25888502.html >>> Sent from the Squid - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> /kinkie >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Operating-System-that-give-best-performance-on-Squid-tp25888502p25891116.html > Sent from the Squid - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- /kinkie
