On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 12:18 -0700, Aaron Chu wrote: > According to my discussion with some vendors, the C2300 does this: > 1200 http transactions per sec in forward proxy (I believe the > effective hit ratio is 55% for this test set) > 1800 http tps in reverse proxy (90% hit ratio for this test set) > As for throughput, it probably comes with a few ports of gigabit > ethernet connectivity, but it can be expanded with additional ports. > It has 6 144gb 15k rpm fc disks, and I assume it uses the same io > architecture as most of the other netapp products. You need to watch out for ACL complexity: I've had an experience with NetCache appliances where due to a complex ACL (ported over from a running Squid conf), the actual performance of a NetCache box was exactly 1/3rd of the specs (600 hits/second, down from a spec of 1.8k) Kinkie