On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:34 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > * Christos Tsantilas <christos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > >>> But since, i had heard that Squid 2.6 version had better performance > >>> than Squid 3.0, i would like to try that also as a backup. > >> Squid 3 is enough fast for most cases. You will not see any difference in > >> performance unless you have a very-very busy proxy server. > > > > I can confirm that. We switched from 2.6 -> 3.0 with no hassle (at 100 > > requests/s) > > > > I had Adrian benchmark 3.x recently. With his specific RAM-pathways test. > > The cutoff for speed seems to be Squid3 reaching 500-650 req/sec and > Squid 2.6 going past that into the 800-900 req/sec ranges. At a few > hundred concurrent requests. If you are not a Squid developer, it is probably better to ignore these numbers than to rely on them. This was a micro-level benchmark not designed to estimate or compare overall proxy performance. Most likely, both the absolute numbers and the relative difference will be very different in a real world or in a realistic benchmark. Alex.
