RE: [squid-users] Systems Requirements

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:54:42 -0800

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben [mailto:benja@ultranet2go.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:30 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Systems Requirements
>
>
> Hi everbody
> What is the Hardware Systems Requirements the squid for
> 10,000 clients?
>
> thanks
> Regards
> Ben
>

Number of clients is a fairly useless metric. Requests per second certainly more helpful, or expected bandwidth utilization, but you also need to specify if you are planning on filtering or authentication, etc.

FWIW:

http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200501/0374.html (3200 unique IPs 220 requests/sec 2MB/sec)
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200504/0876.html (4500 unique IPs Unknown req/sec 3.5-6MB/sec)
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200506/0175.html (General information on big Squid installs)

Chris
Received on Mon Oct 24 2005 - 13:54:44 MDT

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