Re: [squid-users] tproxy performance overhead ?

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006, Pranav Desai wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone have any numbers on how much overhead tproxy will add ?
> Basically, how much drop in performance would we see if tproxy is
> enabled.
>
> I imagine that tproxy will have to do some lookup and hence should
> incur some overhead.
> I also looked at the tproxy mailing list
> https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/tproxy/2005-February/000167.html
> and it seems to suggest that tproxy is not doing very well.
>
> I am also trying a setup myself.
>
> (192.168.1.201)
> client ----------- proxy ----------- server (10.51.6.197)
> eth0 (10.51.6.102)
> eth1 (192.168.1.102)
>
> * There is no direct link between the server and the client.
> * The servers' default gw is the proxy, and the proxy has forwading on.
> * Polymix4 running on the client & server.
> * I dont have any sticky load balancer or routers, hence i am doing this
> setup.

That sounds about right. Just have the proxy as the default gateway
for the client and server.

Adrian

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