Re: [squid-users] max traffic for squid-3.2

On 12/09/2012 4:35 p.m., DNSbed wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So squid-3.2 has been supporting SMP now, how much network traffic can
> it handle?
> 500Mb/s or more?
>
> Thanks.

Mb/s is a "useless" measure for HTTP. Squid has always been able to
handle hundreds of Mb/s provided you only pass one request through at a
time and the CPU is available. A few people have mentioned using 3.1
pushing >840Mb/s for quite specific traffic profiles.

We have benchmarked 3.2 at just over 950 requests/second on an 3yo
machine running other web services. That is done as a single-process
measure to compare with older versions. 3.2 SMP operates much the same
as multi-squid configurations by design, with a few new config features.

  If you already have a multi-squid installation handling that type of
capacity you can expect 3.2 SMP to provide a lot of config
simplification, but nothing special in the way of traffic capacity that
is different to non-SMP Squid.

Amos
Received on Wed Sep 12 2012 - 05:04:35 MDT