Re: Is squid unable to handle the load?

On Wed, 27 May 1998, John A. Lauro wrote:

> > Here is a sample of 11 proxies running Squid 1.1:
> > http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~rousskov/research/cache/squid/profiling/stats/gindex.all.wd/gbag.day.dreq.html
>
> Interesting, but why are the requests/sec so low in all the
> examples?.

Look for the "Comments" section at
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~rousskov/research/cache/squid/profiling/stats/

        "Most measurements were done using 20 minute slots. Currently we
        analyze HTTP traffic only. ICP entries are ignored."

Clearly, there are peaks where a busy proxy server will process more than 20
requests per second. Our plots show what one might call average processing
rate within 20 min slots.

Alex.
Received on Wed May 27 1998 - 15:11:54 MDT