Re: Is squid unable to handle the load?

Hi John,

> > Here is a sample of 11 proxies running Squid 1.1:
> >
> > http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~rousskov/research/cache/squid/profiling/stats/gindex.all.wd/gbag.day.dreq.html
>
> Interesting, but why are the requests/sec so low in all the
> examples?. I didn't see any over 20/sec. I don't consider my system
> to be serving a very large base (and it isn't loaded), and it has a
> peek request of 44 TCP connections/sec (53 if you count UDP),
> although the peek is closer to 17/sec TCP for the average of a
> minute, or a peek hour averages to 10/sec.
>
At our dutch toplevel cache (an IBM RS-6000 Model R50 with 512-MByte RAM
and 16-GByte stripped disk-cache) we have 100 HTTP (TCP) and 400 ICP (UDP)
requests per second during peak hours. We are (still) running Squid v1.1.20
but will switch to Squid v1.2 when stable..
[We are running Squid v1.2-beta21 on our fall-back toplevel server are are
quite satisfied with it... The performance is quite good!!]

Cheers, Henny

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