Re: [squid-users] what do i need to get the job done, performance squid

Jeff Peng wrote:
>> Hello list,
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>> i'm interested in some numbers other people have when using squid as a
>> cache proxy.
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>> Our setup will be 5000 concurrent users surfing on the web.
>> I have a dl380 g5 with 8 10k rpm disks and 32GB ram
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> Sounds a good hardware box.
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>> Would that be sufficient or should i run two squid's on that box (using
>> more cpu's)
>> Or should i use two boxes.
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> If you run two squid instances on a server box, they have to listen on
> different TCP ports. If you don't mind that case, it's fine.
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I would assign two ip adresses to that box for running two squid's
>> are 5000 concurrent users a lot are do other people have more users
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> How much concurrent connections they can make?
> My squid boxes always got 20,000+ concurrent connections.
> Each server box has 4G mem, with a fast SCSI disk.
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i would assigh 12GB memcache and four disks with diskd to each instance.

What (linux) os kernel settings should i use?
ulimit stuff and and what scheduler?
>> Which version off squid should i use (2.7 3.0 3.1)
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> Both are fine.
> But people here said squid-2.7 has better performance for high traffic.
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> Regards,
> Jeff.
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Thanks for the quick reply
Received on Fri Jan 22 2010 - 06:55:04 MST