Re: Squid Throughput/Performance Testing

On 08/04/2008, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> tis 2008-04-08 klockan 13:57 +0100 skrev Bradley Kite:
>
> > Any hints/tips that you can recomend on a low budget? I've looked at
> > Web Polygraph, and in a lab environment this seems excellent, but I
> > think it requires more hardware than I have available to me.
>
>
> There is a number of other tools simpler tools available. But they are
> not as complete as Web-Polygraph.
>
> Apache Benchmark (ab)
> httperf
> Apache flood
> Some test tools included in the Squid source distribution
> many others found out on the net
>
>
> But keep in mind that these are just test & benchmark tools. You should
> not compare any results seen with real live traffic. It's only
> meaningful to compare the same benchmark run on different
> software/configurations, or to get a rough feeling of things..
>
> Regards
>
> Henrik
>
>

Many thanks guys, thats some very useful info.

Regards

--
Brad.