RE: [squid-users] Linux Vs Solaris

Either platform is a good platform for high performance network
applications; keep in mind, though, that Solaris 8, by default, has a TCP/IP
stack tuned for a workstation or low-volume server; you will need to
increase TCP connection buffers if you want to use any high-volume / high
concurrent-connection TCP application, in which Squid or Apache (or any
other HTTP application) come to mind immediately.

My company uses Squid 2.4 Stable1 source installs on Debian GNU/Linux for
Sparc on 2 of our Sun E250s running a Linux 2.4 kernel, and are relatively
happy with the simplicity and performance of the setup. If you choose to
use Linux, make sure you use a later version of the 2.4 kernel, which will
yield better network performance than the 2.2 kernel series, and if you do
use 2.4, make sure to turn off TCP_ECN if you are going to run the box as a
proxy...

Good Luck,

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: faisal1 [mailto:faisal1@hamdard.net.pk]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:54 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Linux Vs Solaris

Hello friends,

I am new to the list and joined today only.. I wanted to know what is
the best platform ( considering OS wise) for running squid with maximum
performance. I have under consideration Linux Redhat and Solaris 8.0
for Sparc machine.
Kindly help, your comments are needed on this matter
regards,
f.n
Received on Fri Aug 24 2001 - 15:17:29 MDT