Re: Question on throughput

[Mike <mcsnv96@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/15/2014 3:41 AM, Jacques Kruger 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

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Throughput on squid 2.x (plus the linux kernel from that timeframe) is limited as we recently found out on one of our servers. In the past with my testing, Windows with cygwin is even further limited. In our case with a small ISP level 200Mbps connection, the best our customers could get with their systems was 20Mbps through linux 2.0.x kernel and squid 2.3.
Same server with updated OS (Scientific Linux 6.5 with latest updates), same connection using compiled squid 3.4.7, typically up to 4000 customers connecting to it at any given moment, and customers with 50Mbps connections (some of the fastest home connection) were seeing less than 20% drop, even spanning across the entire US.


Mike

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