On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:02:16 +0200, Andriy Korud wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if Squid can handle load on single machine (with traffic approx > 15Mbps)? If anybody achieved that, can you please share on which > OS/hardware that was done? > I have Xeon 2.8/1G RAM, 2x15k SCSI disks dedicated for chache (OS will be > Linux or FreeBSD) - so, what can I expect from Squid on such hardware?
At least 400/s i'd say. Depends on your disk cache size and disk i/o. Benchmarking a small pentium 3 for a single small html file does ~900 requests per second here, same machine in production does ~120 / second at around 30% cpu. -- Gabriel Wicke
