Re: [squid-users] tuning squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection

Dear Joe,

I already read your articles on optimizing squid. That's great. But
unfortunately that's LINUX specific and many parts of it does not apply on
BSD flavours. And I know most of web caching appliances are using Squid
inside. I personally have experience with Cisco 505, Cobalt and MS ISA
Server.
But I think Cisco is faster. What a user expects from a cache is flashing
web page on browser! But after applying lots of patches from various sites
and reading lots of articles, and working on squid for more than 2 years,
we do not have that performance that expected.
I am going to launch a web site about tuning squid on FreeBSD to get the
best performance, and also a mail list about squid performance. It will be
available very soon and I will send introduction email to this list, very
soon. All comments and suggestions are welcome.

Regards,

--
Babak Farrokhi
babak@farrokhi.net
Network Administrator
Planet Networks,Inc.
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Joe Cooper wrote:
> There has been much discussion over the years about performance tuning
> Squid.  I've written an exhaustive article about tuning Squid for Linux,
> which is here:
>
> http://www.swelltech.com/pengies/joe/squidtuneup/t1.html
>
> This includes most of what we do on our commercial cache appliances,
> which outperform Cobalt by a /vast/ margin (see benchmarking results for
> the extensive proof of this).  I do not know what Cisco's performance
> looks like, as I don't believe they have been to a cacheoff lately.
> Cobalt boxes use a standard Squid--there is nothing magic about Cobalt's
> Squid (or the Squid on our boxes for that matter, we just work harder to
> make it go fast).
>
> I'll be updating the article above in the next few weeks to take into
> account all of the new features of 2.4 (which is as fast as
> 2.2STABLE5+hno that I recommend in the article), and give some pointers
> for other OS options than Linux.  Though the focus will still very much
> be on using Linux on Intel hardware plus and async i/o compile of Squid,
> because that is what I use, and that is what I know (not to mention that
> it is the fastest commodity hardware/software platform for Squid, so the
> natural choice when documenting tuning Squid for maximum performance).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Babak Farrokhi wrote:
>
> > When asking about squid performacen, it seems that nobody is interested in
> > answering. I have the same problem and already posted in this list.
> > I am using Squid-2.4Stable1 on FreeBSD 4.3RC with lots of tuning on my OS.
> > But the cache performance is not like commercial cache appliances (Cobalt,
> > Cisco). Is there any whitepaper about tuning squid to get the best
> > performance?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Babak Farrokhi
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Edward wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi everyone!
> >>
> >> Have anyone been able to tune squid 2.3/2.4 on a slow connection?
> >>
> >> Have you been able to reduce the latency when accessing cache pages?
> >>
> >> For reference, I am using a P2 400Mhz, 192MB, 6.4GB IDE, 9GB SCSI (for cache), squid 2.4 Stable 1.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
>
>
>                                    --
>                       Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
>                   Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
>                          http://www.swelltech.com
>
>