Re: [squid-users] scalabilty of squid?

On 13.12 13:13, Masterson, Patrick wrote:

please configure your miler to wrap long lines.

> We currently run 20K users a day on a Sun proxy. The machine is a
> Solaris 8 3800 with 8 CPUs and 8 GBs of RAM. We have a 1000 Proxy
> processes running. Throughput is a little slow, and I'd sure like to
> know why. But, we are considering changing over to Squid, and wonder
> about the performance of Squid in this kind of environment. Can it
> perform well here? Have any of you done something similar? -pat

squid can't benefit from multi-CPU configuration, unless you'd run more
instances of it, which is quite hard to maintain.

One squid instance could be enough, but that is hard to say (and easy to
try, if you don't mind). However that is highly dependent on traffic that
passes the server and number of requests per second.

If one instance wouldn't be enough, you can try multiprocess environment,
e.g. 1 proxy-only master server configured to connect to 7 slaves with
their own caches. Note that there should not be more than one instance of
squid on one cache disk.

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