On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Youssef Ghorbal <d...@pasteur.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any recent figures about max throughput to be expected from > a squid 3.x install (on recent hardware) in the scenario of a single stream > downloading a large file (> 1GB) (read not cacheable) > I'm aware that's not a performance metric per se, but it's one of the > scenarios we have to deal with. > > Few weeks ago, Amos talked about 50Mb/s (client + server) for a squid > 3.1
Hi, 50mb/s seems a very conservative estimate to me; in that scenario Squid is essentially acting as a network pipe. Assuming this is a lab (and we can thus ignore bandwidth and latency on the internet link), the expectation is that this kind of scenario for squid will be CPU and network I/O bound, so in order to give any sensible answer we'd need to know what kind of network interface you would use (fast-ethernet? Giga-ethernet copper? Giga-ethernet fiber? Even faster?), what kind of CPU and what kind of system architecture (server-class? pc-class? virtual?) -- /kinkie