2009/1/21 Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Yes it can. Squid's passing through of large objects is much more > efficient than its pass-thru of small objects. A few dozen clients > simultaneously grabbing movies or streaming through a CONNECT request can > saturate a multi-GB link network buffer easily. > A dual-core Xeon _should_ be able to saturate a 10GB link with all clients > online. Has anyone tried this? The last time I tried multi-gige with Squid, it didn't really hit anywhere near 10GE with streaming data because current kernels are optimised with the idea that people will write concurrent software, and so will run multiple threads to do the socket and network stuff (copyin/copyout/tcp/ip stuff, with a kernel thread handling part of the NIC stuff and potentially some of the TX/RX.) Adrian
