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 performs closer 10K requests/sec and also shows the newer versions to be slower and is better off as a forward proxy solution.
I would love to hear from anyone who might have done a similar comparison or if anyone has any thoughts on this. I definitely don't doubt their claims but it came as a surprise to me. Thanks JB
