On 11/03/2012, at 10:21 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote: > On 9/03/2012 4:52 a.m., Student University wrote: >> Hi , >> This is Liley ,,, >> >> can anyone tell me what >> requests per second can squid3 serves , >> especially if we run it on the top of a hardware with OCZ RevoDrive 3 >> X2 (200,000 Random Write 4K IOPS) >> >> Thanks in advance . > > These are some performance stats from network admin who have been willing to donate the info publicly: > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks How do we post results on the above wiki page? > > As for the OCZ question, Squid has been known to burn through SSDs a lot faster than manufacturer claims of their lifetime. Squid traffic is mostly-write with >50Mbps write peak rates where SSD are manufactured for mostly-read I/O patterns. I've recently been told of one ISP reaching around 100Mbps writes on average with no trouble at all. > > The OCZ is rated well above that, so is unlikely to be a visible bottleneck. You are more likely to be throttled by the speed Squid can parse new requests. Which is CPU bound. > > Amos >
