[squid-users] Re: capacity of squid

2Mbps is not very much for 5000 concurrent users.. (soemthing like
0.4Kbps per user..)

2Mbps should not be a problem for a modestly configured Squid. High end
configurations can handle a magnitude of bandwidth more..

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
patrice.valentin@chq.alstom.com wrote:
> 
> Hi, i'm affraid you're wrong on my problem, it's not 500 users it's more than
> 5000 (i know it exactly now, it's over 27000 users) , my bandwith is 2Mb/s (LS
> with the cache of my provider) my proxy is behind a firewall, with 100Mb/s
> conections.
> I had to know exactly what i can do with squid, we'll try a cacheflow 5000 next
> week, so i want to have details on the capacity of my squid, is this server fast
> enough ? do i have to create a cache farm of squids to support more than 20000
> users ? I actually know that my lease line is not enough to support all users,
> but if i have enough bandwith, can my squid server support all the requests ?
> TIA
> Patrice Valentin
> 
> ps : i don't know that micro$oft have made a proxy server, so please don't hurt
> me with this ;-)
> 
> "Hamid Hashemi Golpayegani" <hamid@morva.net> le 16/03/2001 15:21:05
> 
> Pour :    Patrice VALENTIN/FR/CHQ/GECALSTHOM@GA, squid-users@squid-cache.org
> cc :
> 
> Objet :   RE: [squid-users] capacity of squid
> 
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hey Patrice ,
> 
> Just try it ! Do you think that Squid is an MSProxy or something like that
> ?!
> You machine is too strong too handle all of your 500 clients . But the only
> thinks that you must tell us is that how much is your bandwidth ?!
> I am trying something like this machine may be worse than this one for a 4
> MegaBit send and receive sattelite line for about 500 client that 200 of
> them are dial-up and works prefectly .
> Just try it ! and don't forget to tune your squid machine to use async-io
> and reiserFS if you are using Linux or use Diskd on FreeBSD .
> 
> --
> Regards
> 
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>   /  Hashemi Golpayegani  /  Linux for future , FreeBSD for ever  /
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patrice.valentin@chq.alstom.com
> [mailto:patrice.valentin@chq.alstom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:31 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] capacity of squid
> 
> Hi, i have implemented a squid (squid-2.3.STABLE4-1) on a server. It's a
> Dell
> power edge 2450 with 512Mb of Ram, a pentium III 733 processor, a 100Mb/s
> network adapter, 2 disks in Raid1 (18 Gb Ultra3Wide SCSI), i need to serve
> around 5000 clients on a country, that i want to know is how much tcp
> connections a single squid can serve ? and if there is a limit, what happen
> beyond this limit ? are the requests send directly, like a passthrough cache
> ?
> TIA
> Patrice Valentin
> 
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