RE: [squid-users] 50 requests per second

Joe,

        May I ask some specs on that one box that you are using? It would help
greatly to know the level of hardware required for such an install. It
might end up being more cost-effective and less of a headache if there is
system failure, to run two systems.

        Thanks for the information.

Regards,
Robert Adkins
IT Manager/Buyer
IMPEL Industries, Inc.

 -----Original Message-----
From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 10:45 AM
To: mailinglistsquid-users@squid-cache.org; Mark.H.Price@AOC.STATE.NC.US;
Robert Adkins
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] 50 requests per second?

Load balancing isn't strictly necessary. We have a single box serving
200+ reqs/sec at peak periods (dialup ISP workload, so different than a
LAN, but still should make a huge difference in peak request rate).

It just takes a big box, ReiserFS, and Squid with aufs filesystems.

Mark.H.Price@AOC.STATE.NC.US wrote:
> I have successfully tested squid with transparent caching, and it is
> working well for about 100 users. I am going to be deploying squid for
> about 5000 users. I estimate that the proxy will need to easily handle
> 50 requests per second, and perhaps up to 80 or 100 during peak usage
> times.
>
> Does anyone have experience with a cache server serving with such
> a large user base?
>
> I am undecided whether I will be using a tree or mesh, but load
balancing
> will be necessary. The platform of choice is RedHat Linux.
>
> thanks
>
> Mark

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Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
Web caching appliances and support.
http://www.swelltech.com
Received on Fri Jun 21 2002 - 11:10:36 MDT