Re: [squid-users] ANN: stress test tool

From: Josip Almasi <joe_at_vrspace.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:52:29 +0200

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 20/10/10 01:08, Josip Almasi wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just deployed a few squid boxes.
>> Had an unusual requirement - each box is to handle 1000 connections (not
>> requests) per second.
>> Also had some 173 millions urls taken from access logs.
>>
>> Couldn't find what I needed to test it, so I wrote it.
>>
>> So if you need to squeeze your squid, here it is:
>> http://sf.net/projects/spizd
>>
>> Regards...
>>
>
> ApacheBench and Web Polygraph are the standard tools. There are probably
> others I'm not aware of too.

Right. However, ab measures number of requests rather than connections,
and polygraph is... not exactly easy to use.

> Thanks for this one. Added to the profiling FAQ page.
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidProfiling

Thanks for adding it. Slight typo though: SPIZD, not SPITZD.

Regards...
Received on Tue Oct 19 2010 - 16:53:09 MDT

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