On 12/09/2012 4:35 p.m., DNSbed wrote:
Hello, So squid-3.2 has been supporting SMP now, how much network traffic can it handle? 500Mb/s or more? Thanks.
Mb/s is a "useless" measure for HTTP. Squid has always been able to handle hundreds of Mb/s provided you only pass one request through at a time and the CPU is available. A few people have mentioned using 3.1 pushing >840Mb/s for quite specific traffic profiles.
We have benchmarked 3.2 at just over 950 requests/second on an 3yo machine running other web services. That is done as a single-process measure to compare with older versions. 3.2 SMP operates much the same as multi-squid configurations by design, with a few new config features.
If you already have a multi-squid installation handling that type of capacity you can expect 3.2 SMP to provide a lot of config simplification, but nothing special in the way of traffic capacity that is different to non-SMP Squid.
Amos
