Hi ; Its really great ,,, you achieve this with : 1- special drives like SSD , how many , what RAID ??? 2- What squid configuration tweak you used , also the tuned kernel ones , 3- you run squid as transparent proxy or what mode , 4- can you please share with community your experience ,,, it will be beneficial to all of us , 5- this should be added to http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks Best Regards , Liley On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Baird, Josh <jbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good numbers. I believe that it would be very beneficial to the community if you wouldn't mind sharing the kernel tweaks and squid tweaks that you used to achieve these numbers. > > Thanks, > > Josh > > -----Original Message----- > From: GarethC [mailto:gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:26 PM > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: RPS > > Hi there, > > As an example, I set up Squid 2.7 on a HP BL460c (4x Quad-core CPU, 24GB > RAM) with Redhat 5 running bonded NICs over a 2x 2G port channel to a Cisco > 6509. It took several days of testing to get the Kernel tuned to be able to > handle a high rate of connections (things like tcp_max_syn_backlog, > tcp_tw_recycle, tcp_rmem, tcp_fin_timeout etc). > Squid was also tuned to maximise use of memory, as opposed to disk cache. > > The maximum sustained connections achieved was in the region of ~2,000 conns > per second, and equated to ~980Mbps for a single server. The content that > was being requested was purely static html and images. > > Hope that gives you some sort of view as to what is achievable. > > Gareth > > ----- > Follow me on... > > My Blog > Twitter > LinkedIn > Facebook > > -- > View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/RPS-tp4480226p4489420.html > Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
