On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Just going through the Appendices, and am really curious about something.
>
> Squid ran on a PII 333Mhz machine and does 96req/sec ($3960)
>
> InfoLibria-L was a Cluster of *4* DynaCache IL-100-7 and did 1600req/sec
> ($202880)
>
> Now, if I had $202,880 to spend, and set up a cluster of 51 Squid servers,
> I could conceivably see 4896req/sec (51*96req/sec)...no? So, for the same
> money, I'd be doing 3x better? :)
Not exactly. You have to add the price of network gear and, perhaps,
software required to put 50 Squids together _and_ make sure that network
gear does not become a bottleneck.
The 8 port 3Com hub that Squid was using would not scale to 50 Squids. :)
$0.02,
Alex.
Received on Fri Oct 15 1999 - 10:11:42 MDT
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