Re: [squid-users] benefit for using squid as sever accelerator

> I am thinking of using squid as the server accelerator of my apache web
> server. Can anyone give me some ideas of the advantages for using squid as
> server accelerator compared to using the apache server alone? Of

memory usage. apache generates one now-small process for each connection.
if client has slow link compared to time apache need to fetch html/run
cgi/etc (often the case) it is an adventage.

> course I know squid can cache some hot objects but I think apache
> server also has similar functions. So how about other aspects? Like how
> many concurrent connections and peak request ratio can squid handle more
> than apache?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Li Xiang
>
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Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 03:13:41 MDT