> Hello list, > > i'm interested in some numbers other people have when using squid as a > cache proxy. > > Our setup will be 5000 concurrent users surfing on the web. > I have a dl380 g5 with 8 10k rpm disks and 32GB ram Sounds a good hardware box. > > Would that be sufficient or should i run two squid's on that box (using > more cpu's) > Or should i use two boxes. If you run two squid instances on a server box, they have to listen on different TCP ports. If you don't mind that case, it's fine. > > are 5000 concurrent users a lot are do other people have more users > How much concurrent connections they can make? My squid boxes always got 20,000+ concurrent connections. Each server box has 4G mem, with a fast SCSI disk. > Which version off squid should i use (2.7 3.0 3.1) > Both are fine. But people here said squid-2.7 has better performance for high traffic. Regards, Jeff.
