Re: [squid-users] Squid NT vs. Squid Linux

Hi,

At 04.33 15/11/2003, Cafe Admin wrote:

>Hi All,
>Does any one know if there is any noticeable peformance difference between
>Squid on Windows 2000 Server and on RedHat Linux 9? I'm currently running
>2.5-Stable3 on a dedicated RH9 box, and I know my hardware is being
>underutlized (2.0GHz Xeon , 2x10k RPM SCSI, 640MB, 1000Mbps NIC). I'm
>thinking about converting the machine to Windows File Server/PDC/SquidNT.
>Serving 30 clients on 100MB network (who are constantly surfing the Net)
>with 256Kbps connection to the Internet. As always thanks for your feedback.

In the Windows port there are still some limitations:

- Max. 2048 File Descriptors, so more than 100 concurrent client cannot be
safely supported
- The internal socket loop is select() based vs poll() or better on Unix/Linux
- Transparent proxy is not available
- Some async FS storage are not available (COSS, diskd)

So currently I expect always better performance from a Linux/Unix based Squid.

In Your configuration I think that major bottleneck can be the line speed:
today an Internet bandwidth of 256 Kbit/s for 30 concurrent web client can
be very low.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Sat Nov 15 2003 - 00:48:03 MST