Re: Introduction

Cool. Performance seems to be on a lot of folks minds again...That's
good to see.

On that note, I'll finally be posting some benchmarks of 2.5 in the next
few days as promised a couple of months ago (I blame lack of available
hardware--my old test box went into permanent retirement after a wiring
closet cleanup).

Speaking of large volume Squids. I recently consulted with someone
pushing over 50Mbps from each of 4 Squid boxes. It was big media files,
so only a few requests per second, though. But it was nice to see Squid
giving the 10/100 pipe a workout, and taking advantage of the throughput
of modern disks.

Brian Akins wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I work for CNN Internet technologies. We currently have a commercial
> product that serves all the "static" content (js, images, txt, etc) from
> here. We also have several squid boxes serving as well. See cnn.com,
> all the references to i.cnn.net are served by this cache farm.
>
> I am most interested in helping in the area of reverse proxy
> performance. We have pushed a single squid instance to ~ 160,000
> reverse proxy requests per minute. I think this number can be greatly
> increased.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Brian Akins
> Senior Systems Engineer
> CNN Internet Technologies

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