Re: [squid-users] Squid requirements

> --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid requirements
>> To: "Chris Robertson" <crobertson_at_gci.net>
>> Cc: "Squid Users" <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 9:28 AM
>> What we're really missing is a bunch of "hardware
>> x, config y, testing
>> z, results a, b, c." TMF used to have some stuff up
>> for older hardware
>> but there's just nothing recent to use as a measuring
>> stick..
>>
>
> The problem is that there's so much disparate technology out there.
> multi-core cpus, all kinds of different memory, all kinds of different
> disk technologies, different filesystems, different OS, different
> kernels, and on and on. It's hard to get useful measuring sticks.
>
> I still think it's a useful pursuit. But I think that the reasons above
> make people less inclined to do it.
>
> spec.org tries to level the field, if someone concocted a level field and
> made it easy for people to do, then we'd see more results.
>

TMF when last seen were working on a standard set of tests for Squid such
that we could run them on any given OS and CPU/RAM/HDD config and
benchmark the interesting stats. Hopefully it (a) wont take too much
longer (b) will be public so anyone can run the tests and report data to
us.

Meanwhile I've added a wiki page to cover the worst part of the
information gap. http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks

Amos
Received on Thu Jul 17 2008 - 04:07:32 MDT