Re: [squid-users] what is the fastest possible thru-speed conf?

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:50:45 +0800

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006, Rick Brooks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My company has been building squid servers based on openbsd boxes for a
> couple of years and have hit a "wall" for thru-speed.
>
> All of you are quite aware that Internet access speeds are higher and higher
> (15Mb is not unusual in the USA) but our squid servers are not exceeding
> 3.5Mb to the client desktop behind it.
>
> My question is this:
>
> "would the forum mind sharing their "top speed" specs and configurations for
> their fastest machines?"

Squid-2.6 with epoll will easily break 15mbit without a sweat on modern
hardware. I've had my test caches pushing 30mbit without any problems and
I'm sure others have beaten it.

The biggest limitation at the moment is disk throughput. I'm able to hit
30mbit whilst testing out the experimental cyclic FS but its still buggy.

There's kqueue() support in Squid-2.6 which is intended for FreeBSD -
I'm not sure whether OpenBSD has snarfed the interface yet or not.
If it has then you may want to give kqueue a go over poll/select.

Adrian
Received on Mon Jul 10 2006 - 18:50:09 MDT

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