On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 19:25 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: > Our current proprietory webcaches push about 100Mbps and are due for > replacement, so we're looking at Squid. Assuming Lintel platform, what > spec of hardware would provide, say 2-3 times that performance? We run > LDAP authentication, complex ACLs and SmartFilter. Do you want your Squid to do disk caching? If yes, I do not know the answer, but others will hopefully pitch in. If you do not need disk caching, you should be able to do 100 Mbits/sec or more with Squid before LDAP, ACLs, and SmartFilter are taken into account. A reasonably configured Dual Core 3+MHz PC should be able to do that. I cannot estimate the effect of authentication, access controls, and SmartFilter in general, but one can always benchmark a specific configuration to discover its limits. Needless to say that if Squid does not meet your performance objectives, it is possible to optimize it so that it does (as long as there is another cache that performs at the desired level). The required development would depend on your specific situation, and may not be trivial, of course. HTH, Alex.
