My first port of call would be apachebench with and without your proxies. A web search for "squid apachebench" might yield some leads to people who have done this. (I'm sure apachebench is well tested.)
Eg. the third hit on Google: https://2bits.com/articles/using-apachebench-benchmarking-logged-users-automated-approach.html On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 7:20 PM, Alex Rousskov < rouss...@measurement-factory.com> wrote: > On 06/07/2018 04:17 AM, Stoica Bogdan Alexandru wrote: > > > We’re a small research team interested in benchmarking Squid for a > > research project. > > > Ideally, we would like to have good code coverage while doing so. > > > Are there any good benchmarks used for such purpose? > > Performance benchmarks usually focus on things other than code coverage. > It is very difficult to write a quality benchmark for a proxy, even > without code coverage as a goal! > > One the other hand, a decent proxy benchmark has enough knobs to tickle > most "interesting" code paths in Squid (or any other proxy). Web > Polygraph[1] (mentioned on this thread earlier) is a good example -- you > can trigger cache revalidation, simulate heavy tailed hit distributions > that stress disk caching, exercise the code that handles aborted > transactions, persistent connection races, etc., etc. > > > > Or, even better, is > > there a more comprehensive test suite apart from the one Squid comes > with? > > Squid does not come with a comprehensive test suite (yet) and the tests > distributed with Squid are not performance tests (a.k.a. "benchmarks"). > If you are looking for functionality rather than performance testing, > then there is Co-Advisor[2]. Squid is tested with Co-Advisor, but those > tests have not been automated (yet). > > [1] http://www.web-polygraph.org/ > [2] http://coad.measurement-factory.com/ > > > HTH, > > Alex. > P.S. Disclaimer: The company I work for is responsible for both of the > test tools mentioned above. > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users > -- Coenraad Loubser Wireless Internet Services & Hardware (Pty) Ltd. 210 Long Street, Cape Town, 8001, ZA Office: +27 21 481 1824 Skype: Coenraad_Loubser Email: coenr...@wish.org.za Cell: +27 73 772 1223 -- Spending Money is like watering a plant.
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