Re: [squid-users] performance question, 1 or 2 NIC's?

Ooo... the line between Squid and the clients is 1000 MB. My internet
connection is 12MB. Not sure if that changes things. Does it? Would it
make a difference in that situation if clients (from 1000Mb) come on
one line, eth0 and get cached on eth1 which is only 12MB.

Sorry if I wasn't clear before

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
>>
>> Em 28/08/2010 12:29, Andrei escreveu:
>>>
>>> I'm setting up a transparent Squid box for 300 users. All requests
>>> from the router are sent to the Squid box. Squid box has one NIC,
>>> eth0. This box receives requests (from clients) and catches content
>>> from the web using this one NIC on its one WAN port, eth0.
>>>
>>> Question: would it improve performance of the Squid box if I was
>>> receiving requests (from the clients) on eth0 and caching content on
>>> eth1? In other words, is there a benefit of using two NIC's vs. one?
>>> This is a public IP/WAN Squid box. Both eth0 and eth1 would have a WAN
>>> (public IP) address.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm on a 12Mb line.
>>>
>>
>>
>>    Your limitation is your 12Mb line .... any decent hardware can handle
>> that with no problem at all. ANY 100Mbit NIC, even onboard and
>> cheapers/generics one, can handle 12Mbit with no problem at all.
>>
>>    i really dont think adding another NIC will improve your performance,
>> given your 12Mbit WAN limitation.
>>
>>
>
> Indeed.
>
> Andrei escreveu:
>  Whether anything can be done by Squid depends on whether the clients using
> Squid are on the outside of that 12Mb line or on some faster connection
> between them and Squid.
>
>  For a faster internal connection and slower Internet connection you can
> look towards raising the Hit Ratio' probably the byte hits specifically.
> That will drop the load on the Internet line and make the whole network
> appear faster to users. The holy grail for forward proxies seems to be 50%,
> with reality coming in between 20% and 45% depending on your clients and
> storage space.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.7
>  Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.1
>
Received on Sun Aug 29 2010 - 03:41:21 MDT