Re: [squid-users] Is Squid slow?

I really can't answer your question about relative performance because I've
never used a caching Web proxy other than Squid.

That said, I'm not unhappy about the performance I'm getting. (Perhaps I
would be if I had previously used MS Proxy; I don't know.) FWIW, I'm
running Squid with the following resources:

  Software:
    RedHat Linux v7.2 /w kernel 2.4.16
    Squid v2.4S3, compiled with i686 optimizations

  Hardware:
    Dual Pentium3 @ 550MHz
    512MB of PC100 RAM
    ReiserFS file system ("notail, noatime") on a fast SCSI drive.
    100Mbps NICs on server & clients, across a switch

Also, nobody is claiming that Squid is the fastest caching proxy available.
 Check out the Cache Bake-Off results.

One more comment on performance. Most of the subscribers to this list seem
to be interested in improving their max hits/second, the better to serve a
large number of users. My interest is in maximizing performance for a
small number of users, so I'm more focused on raw throughput than hits/sec.
 I haven't had to tweak Linux itself (increasing max file handles, etc.),
but that may help in your environment.

Maybe if you posted some specific statistics some people on the list could
pinpoint were your bottleneck is. Besides the intrinsic reporting
capabilities in Squid, I find that the Calamaris log parser
(http://cord.de/tools/squid/calamaris/) is useful in identifying what is
actually going on in Squid.

On Tuesday 04 December 2001 01:38 am, SLai wrote:
> Steve
>
> I am using MS Proxy on NT 4.0. The speed of http access from client wks
> is fast compared to using squid. It takes a a long time to load the
> pages. I use Squid on Linux Mandrake 8.0. And after a few I could not use
> it anymore.
>
> Personally, from your own experience with Squid on Linux, what do you
> think of the speed! Fast, slow??
>
> Thanks.
>
> Steven
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Snyder <swsnyder@home.com>
> To: <slai@sceptre.com>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Is Squid slow?
>
> > On Monday 03 December 2001 05:11 pm, Steven Lai wrote:
> > > I have been experimenting with Squid for the last week! Compared to
> > > MS Proxy Server, Squid seems slow!
> >
> > On what operating system?
> >
> > Are you comparing MS Proxy and Squid on the same hardware?
Received on Tue Dec 04 2001 - 08:28:52 MST