Amos Jeffries schrieb: Hi Amos, > 5,000rps is around the fastest I have heard for Squid in production. > 220mbit/s is about twice the bandwidth that user had. So well done on that. Wow, didn't know that. But there is no magic included, just a plain Squid. Good work on your side I would say. > * turn zero_buffers off > * experiment with the incoming_rate. > * debugging in Squid is known to slow things down "debug_options > ALL,0" is the fastest. > * some small cache_mem on the CARP may or may not improve the overall > speed. It will on the hottest objects. I will try those and get back to the list. > * tune the kernel TCP timeouts This is a mystery to me. So I might get into this. > If thats not fast enough for you, you could try the latest 2.HEAD and > 3.HEAD for the latest speed boosters we have. 2.HEAD has the last of the > Yahoo! and Adrian speed experiments and is usably stable. 3.HEAD is > where we are working now, but may not be as fast as 2.x. If my intention would be to break a new record I would try the HEAD revision. But this thing should sooner or later go into a production environment. So I better stick with the "official" stable version. Cheers, Markus