Re: [squid-users] ncsa_auth and number of users

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:21:06 +0100

Joe Cooper wrote:

> Seriously, I would expect an autenticated cache to serve up at least 2/3
> the number of outgoing requests/second it could serve without auth
> (those kinds of numbers have been discussed to death), and probably
> quite a bit more. Authenticated use does lead to more client requests,
> but the initial challenge-request is quite light-weight. The only way
> to know for sure would be to benchmark it yourself.

Basic authentication only adds a marginal amount of requests and is very
lightweight for the cache to process.

  * 1 challenge request at the start of a "user session".

  * 1 call to the auth helper each auth ttl.
    
NTLM or Digest authentication is anoher business.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Feb 11 2003 - 02:28:00 MST

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