Re: [squid-users] Filedescriptors

Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com> writes:

[...]

> > How fast is it generally assumed squid will go with a massive
> > amount of hardware - if it was to be used as an enterprise
> > solution as such.
>
> We've shipped boxes (huge, honking, monster boxes--as big as off-the-shelf
> hardware goes) that could sustain around 300 reqs/sec on a Polymix-4
> workload. 350 on a DataComm-1. I think it was Kinkie who had some boxes
> in the real world pushing up around that during peak periods. Monster boxes
> in his case as well. This info tends to reinforce my belief that Polymix-4
> is actually harder than the real world. Polymix-3

Not monster-boxes, they're relatively "normal" Enterprise-class machines.
In the US$7k-10k range by now.

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