Thanks Stephen. If I'm correct I can only adjust the number of workers in Squid3, not in 2.7. I'll check if I've misread the documentation and adjust it if I can. Regards, Jacques -----Original Message----- From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Baynes Sent: 15 October 2014 11:23 AM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Question on throughput On a multi CPU box - the number of Squid workers has a very big effect of the throughput. Stephen On 15 October 2014 09:41, Jacques Kruger <Jacques.Kruger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I’ve implemented my fair share of squid proxies over the past couple > of years and I’ve always been able to find a solution in the mail > archive, but this time around I’m stumped. This is the first time I’ve > used squid with a fast (in our context) internet connection, > specifically a 4G connection that the provider claims can run up to > 100Mbps. Claims aside, my real-world testing is not what I’m > expecting. I’ve used two squid instances, one on PFsence (2.7.9) and > one on Windows (2.7Stable8) and compared the throughput to a > connection without squid and what I’ve found is, when testing with > www.speedtest.net the throughput is roughly half with squid compared > to a direct connection. I’ve left to configuration pretty much default and have tried to tweak, both without success. > > > > What are the directives that have the most effect on throughput? > > > > Regards, > > > > Jacques Kruger > > > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users > -- Stephen Baynes CEng MBCS CITP _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
