Re: [squid-users] squid in ISP

Richard Hubbell wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 7/11/08, Rhino <rhino_at_machlink.com> wrote:
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>> From: Rhino <rhino_at_machlink.com>
>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] squid in ISP
>> To: lsk_at_rocketmail.com
>> Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
>> Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 6:56 AM
>> Siu-kin Lam wrote:
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> Any experience using squid as caching in ISP
>> environment ?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> SK
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> I'm sure there's much larger ISPs out there and
>> been using it much longer;
>> just passing along our info.
>> We're a small ISP serving around 10k dialup,dsl,cable
>> modem and MAN subs
>> via a dual-homed to different ISP BGP WAN.
>> We loaded squid on a quad core linux box with around 1.2Tb
>> disk
>> capacity and 32Gb RAM, using a Cisco 4948 switch and WCCP2
>> to transparently redirect to Squid.
>> There were some major hurdles along the way
>> mostly getting the 4948 to pass the L2 WCCP traffic -
>> 2 IOS bugs and a year in the process) but once that worked
>> and we got our IPTABLES set up properly, transparent
>> redirection
>> has been working quite well.
>> Some tweaks needed to our Squid config, but with the help
>> of this list
>> - particularly Henrik and Amos' posts - at this point
>> we're very
>> encouraged by the performance and bandwidth savings
>> we're seeing on the
>> system which has only been truly active for around 3 weeks
>> now.
>> Again, we're a pretty small shop - so when our old
>> NetApp Netcache
>> was no longer able to adequately handle the load, we needed
>> an
>> effective, minimal-cost solution which this is
>> demonstrating to be.
>> Hope that helps.
>> -Ryan
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> Thanks for sharing this. We're doing about 75 requests/sec on a quad-core Xeon with 16GB. Still trying out some different configs.
> I have cache_mem set to 2GB and it's working well so far.
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> It's not even worked up a sweat and has plenty of room for more work.

I'll bet it isn't.
75 is not even close to half what squid was doing in Y2K. :)

If you want to stress it we'd be glad of the results.

Amos

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