> > I have seem different capability on squid boxes, from 1000 > > request/second to 7000 request/second. > > What's the max capability (tps) for squid for reverse-proxying a > > comman web application (ie, the html pages)? > > My squid is running with Intel 2.4GHz * 4 CPU and 2G memory and a 15k > > SAS disk. Thanks. > > Depends very much on your hardware, particular squid config, and squid > version. > We don't yet have any standards of benckmarking. > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks > As you can see its pretty sparse. Any contributions are welcome. Talking about benchmarks; I did get around 770 r/s and was wondering why... In fact, it was just because my test object was 15KB. With a 1KB object, I get 5000+ r/s. So, what is the "usual" size of test objects for the benchmarks...? Thx, JD