[squid-users] Re: comparing squid with IIS 4.0

In article <20020320170130.GP2088@mtds.com>,
Simon White <simon@mtds.com> wrote:
>You have a point. The amount of requests/sec will just flood Squid. So, yes,
>someone tell me, what is the use of a Squid in front. If you have, say, a
>Squid that can do 300 req/s, and IIS 500 req/s, then how is Squid going to be
>anything other than a decelerator, and a block to traffic?

If all your clients are on 100 mbit ethernet, it won't make any
difference. But if you have lots of 28k8 or ISDN using clients, they
will keep the connections to the webserver open for quite a long
time - the time it takes to download that index.html or logo.jpg file.

Webservers are heavy and don't respond well to hundreds of *simultaneous*
slow clients. Squid excels in that.

So try your benchmark again with a few thousand connects from simulated
28k8 clients.

Mike.

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