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

That is a good potential. Thanks for your info.

Li Xiang

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Matthew Goheen wrote:

> Well, in a similar vein, we use Squid as an accelerator on top of Apache
> running mod-perl. The Apache mod-perl processes each eat up around 16Mb,
> and this severely limited the number of requests we could handle, as only
> about 10% of our requests were dynamic (i.e. mod-perl). Since the Apache
> process grows "permanently" once it runs a dynamic request, Apache would
> quickly eat up all memory (we played with having Apache restart after
> handling very few requests, but this really didn't help).
>
> The solution for us was to put Squid in the middle. Now we can handle
> hundreds of requests, and only have about 10 Apache processes running at
> any single point in time, Squid does the rest.
>
> - Matt Goheen
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Li Xiang [mailto:lix@comp.nus.edu.sg]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:28 AM
> > To: Wojciech Puchar
> > Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] benefit for using squid as sever accelerator
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Anyone else get some new ideas?
> >
> > Li Xiang
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 08:24:11 MDT