Re: [squid-users] requests per second

On 12.03.2012 01:13, Student University wrote:
> Dears ,
>
> how we can achieve 5000 RPS through squid ,,,,
>
> Thanks in advance
> Liley

Why are you asking?

Amos

>
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> On 9/03/2012 4:52 a.m., Student University wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi ,
>>> This is Liley ,,,
>>>
>>> can anyone tell me what
>>> requests per second can squid3 serves ,
>>> especially if we run it on the top of a hardware with OCZ RevoDrive
>>> 3
>>> X2 (200,000 Random Write 4K IOPS)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance .
>>
>>
>> These are some performance stats from network admin who have been
>> willing to
>> donate the info publicly:
>> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks
>>
>> As for the OCZ question, Squid has been known to burn through SSDs a
>> lot
>> faster than manufacturer claims of their lifetime. Squid traffic is
>> mostly-write with >50Mbps write peak rates where SSD are
>> manufactured for
>> mostly-read I/O patterns. I've recently been told of one ISP
>> reaching around
>> 100Mbps writes on average with no trouble at all.
>>
>> The OCZ is rated well above that, so is unlikely to be a visible
>> bottleneck.
>> You are more likely to be throttled by the speed Squid can parse new
>> requests. Which is CPU bound.
>>
>> Amos
>>
Received on Sun Mar 11 2012 - 21:12:16 MDT