Re: [squid-users] Squid Scalability

Sunny Bhatheja wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the following configuration of my Hardware. So can any one
> suggest me that how much I can scale my Squid in terms of users.
>
> 1) Sun Fire system x4450
>
> 2) Quad Cord
>
> 3) 64 GB RAM
>
> 4) 146x4 GB HDD
>
> I am using squid 2.6 STABLE4 that is bundled with RHEL 5.2

Despite many years of asking, few people have ever supplied the squid
project with relevant benchmarking info. We depend on volunteers so
there are no hard numbers available publicly yet.

req/sec scales into thousands on modern hardware. It depends on what
modes you run squid as (forward/reverse have vastly different maximums),
how high the hit-ratios are and how many req/sec each user makes.

To scale higher you will need a newer Squid than 2.6.stable6.

Amos

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