Ooo... the line between Squid and the clients is 1000 MB. My internet connection is 12MB. Not sure if that changes things. Does it? Would it make a difference in that situation if clients (from 1000Mb) come on one line, eth0 and get cached on eth1 which is only 12MB. Sorry if I wasn't clear before On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: >> >> Em 28/08/2010 12:29, Andrei escreveu: >>> >>> I'm setting up a transparent Squid box for 300 users. All requests >>> from the router are sent to the Squid box. Squid box has one NIC, >>> eth0. This box receives requests (from clients) and catches content >>> from the web using this one NIC on its one WAN port, eth0. >>> >>> Question: would it improve performance of the Squid box if I was >>> receiving requests (from the clients) on eth0 and caching content on >>> eth1? In other words, is there a benefit of using two NIC's vs. one? >>> This is a public IP/WAN Squid box. Both eth0 and eth1 would have a WAN >>> (public IP) address. >>> >>> >>> I'm on a 12Mb line. >>> >> >> >> Your limitation is your 12Mb line .... any decent hardware can handle >> that with no problem at all. ANY 100Mbit NIC, even onboard and >> cheapers/generics one, can handle 12Mbit with no problem at all. >> >> i really dont think adding another NIC will improve your performance, >> given your 12Mbit WAN limitation. >> >> > > Indeed. > > Andrei escreveu: > Whether anything can be done by Squid depends on whether the clients using > Squid are on the outside of that 12Mb line or on some faster connection > between them and Squid. > > For a faster internal connection and slower Internet connection you can > look towards raising the Hit Ratio' probably the byte hits specifically. > That will drop the load on the Internet line and make the whole network > appear faster to users. The holy grail for forward proxies seems to be 50%, > with reality coming in between 20% and 45% depending on your clients and > storage space. > > Amos > -- > Please be using > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.7 > Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.1 >
