RE: What is the capacity of a Squid server?

We're running a couple of beefy Solaris boxes in a failover and
load-balancing configuration that supports around 40,000 users at a tune of
an average 2 million hits a day. This works out to a peak five minute
average of 50 requests/second, although I've seen that go up as high as 150
under or real load and the system has handled a continuous 300/second for 10
hours strait using Polygraph as the benchmark driver. Granted, we've tuned
it quite a bit and have thrown expensive hardware at it, but it is still
just the base compile of Squid (2.2STABLE3) with nothing special done to it.
25-30 users should be no problem for it at all.

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sparks [SMTP:michael.sparks@mcc.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:26 AM
> To: Bill Delphenich
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: What is the capacity of a Squid server?
>
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Bill Delphenich wrote:
>
> > I am considering using Squid as my proxy server for HTTP and FTP for my
> > company LAN. I have a Caldera Linux v2.2 test server running Squid and
> > IP Masquerading and I have a few users accessing the Internet with it
> > just fine.
> >
> > My concern is the maximum capacity of this server. I haven't been able
> > to find any information about this anywhere. Is it asking too much to
> > send 25 or 30 users through this server every day, including some fairly
> > sizeable FTP uploads and downloads? Should I be looking at something
> > more "industrial-strength"?
>
> An aging document on what various people us is at:
>
> http://wwwcache.ja.net/Surveys/TopLevelCacheServerSurvey.html
>
> It was compiled by Martin Hamilton way back in the mists of 1997! (if
> anyone is on that list and wants their entries updated, please feel free
> to contact us via our addres on our website :-)
>
> Personally I think an unmodified installation of Linux with the squid RPM
> may be able to handle the workload of 25-30 users - ie what you've got
> now. A tuned linux box with enough memory/disk can easily be made to
> handle more than 2.5 Million requests per day - assuming you have the
> bandwidth available.
>
>
> Michael.
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Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 10:49:26 MDT