thanks for sharing your experience but what about ISPs who are handling thousands of queries . aren't they using squid? AFAIK my ISP is usring squid and its a biggest ISP in whole country. and some time i am getting the squid error messages. so what would be their strategy ? On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:33 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+squid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2012/5/5 Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@xxxxxxxxx>: >> right now i am handling 35 users with a squid having 512 MB ram and >> it is on virtual server KVM linux, things are working fine. but for my >> career growth i am looking for a good path to continue with squid. >> like for example if i move to another org. and they have like around >> 300 or 500 users . how come ill manage that. i know 512 configuration >> of squid will not handle that bulk queries. so what is the best >> approach. or do you think this tiny (few GB) 512 MB squid VM gonna >> work with 500 users....... however our processor (right now) and >> hardware is strong it is Xeone quade core. 2.6 . >> >> and for me an important question is. how ISP is using Squid what kind >> of infrastructure they have. apart from storage i know ISPs are >> caching youtube and other web contents to lower down their traffic so >> i know they must have good storage system like SAN or NAS but how >> would they cater all the queries where thousands of users are hitting >> just one single box.(may be) ???? >> >> >> >> Thanks, > > Our most heavily used proxy is also our most outdated and oldest > machine at the moment, it is still a hardware machine and not virtual, > it's a dualcore (or dualsocket) Xeon 2.4GHz, has only 1G of RAM, on > average has 500-600 users and handles about 200-300G of traffic per > day. > It's caching performance is less good both due to the much more > diverse nature of the browsing and downloading and the much smaller > cache that it can have since it is only using it's internal harddisks > and not any storage servers. > I think that nicely shows the power of squid. > If you just use it as a device to enable people to get to the Internet > and monitor/block small amounts of traffic even 'weak' machines can > handle a lot. > > HTH, > Eli
