Re: Accessing wwwcache.hensa using squid (fwd)

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> Anyone handling more than 3 million HTTP requests a day ? :-)
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               on a single machine? not on 6 SGI challenge machines?

 Hyunchul Kim

 - hckim@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr
                                
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> Martin
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> From: "M.L.Bowman" <mlb@sesame.hensa.ac.uk>
> To: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
> Cc: wwwcache-users@mailbase.ac.uk,
> Cc: jp107@damtp.cam.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Accessing wwwcache.hensa using squid
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:30:27 +0100
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> Jon,
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> > > installing squid on the machines instead of the netscape cache would be a
> > > great step forward.
> >
> > Agreed! I understand that the NetScape cache was first installed as an
> > experiment, isn't it time to try something else? In particular because Hensa
> > are running the NS cache, lots of other people believe that they must do so as
> > well (the doc doesn't exactly help here). While this is good for NS it isn't
> > necessarily a good idea for the community.
> > .
> > At Networkshop, several people cornered Neil Smith and asked him about
> > changing over to Harvest/Squid and he seemed to imply that Hensa was going to
> > try them. Since then I've heard nothing about this.
> >
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> In the past few months Squid was tried out on one of the cache
> machines. During this period the performance was quite poor with
> overheads in excess of 1 second on every connection being introduced
> by the squid proxy. This compared to about 0.2 seconds on Netscape V2,
> and exceeded our goal of less than 0.8 seconds per connection. Its
> behaviour with certain elements of the HTTP protocol was also brought
> into question by some users. Also, fatal bug fixes were coming out
> quite regularly and the work-load was quite high.
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> As Neil Smith has recently left HENSA Unix for pastures new, he decided
> it would be better to have all the cache machines running the same server
> rather than three different ones (Netscape V1, Netscape V2 and Squid).
> The Netscape v2 was stable enough to put on all the machines.
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> At the moment Netscape is coping well with the load put on it,
> about 2.8 million requests per day. If you know of a Squid server
> successfully handling this kind of load we would be interested to hear
> about it.
>
> from
> Maggie Bowman
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> Maggie Bowman
> HENSA Administrator e-mail: archive-admin@unix.hensa.ac.uk
> Computing Labs
> University of Kent at Canterbury
> Kent CT2 7NF phone: Kent 764000 ext 3769
> U.K. e-mail: mlb@unix.hensa.ac.uk
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Received on Wed Oct 23 1996 - 08:43:55 MDT