Re: [squid-users] squid running on Linux vs. squid running on FreeBSD

From: Kevin <kkadow@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 03:18:54 -0500

On 5/31/05, Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:11:42PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> >>I have good experience with Squid performance in FreeBSD, but I didn't
> >>do any benchmarks against Linux.
> > As long as you are happy with the performance you see from your systems
> > this isn't much to worry about is it? ;-)

Exactly. Instead, worry about security (why I run squid under systrace).

> I'm always interested in how to improve Squid's performance. :-) I use
> accelerator mode only though. Currently I can get one HP DL 380 server
> to pump out around 30 mbps, 700+ hits per second using FreeBSD 4.

Do you know where your bottleneck is? CPU? Drive I/O? ISP bandwidth?
Not enough customers hitting your site to drive the needle higher?

Kevin
Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 02:18:56 MDT

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