Re: [squid-users] Evaluating SQUID as a Reverse Proxy for a large web site

From: Alex Hayward <xelah-squid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:39:50 +0000 (GMT)

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Koji Hino wrote:

> If your testplan is (3), Apache's total processing amount (including
> OS's) may be less than Squid's. On Apache server, its OS can cache all
> static content files on memory, and the OS knows those files were not
> modified (because no one write to those files), so the OS and Apache
> are free from many complex checkings and cache managements.

It's also worth remembering that a large number of users on slow
connections can tie up a lot more resources within a process per
connection web server than within Squid. Squid 2 doesn't work brilliantly
with large numbers of connections but it can slowly dribble data out to
clients more efficiently than Apache can - especially if your httpds
memory requirements are swollen with lots of mod_perl code (mine have
virtual sizes of about 40MB).
Received on Mon Mar 08 2004 - 04:40:03 MST

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