Re: Info on Big Squids wanted

> According to Jon Peatfield:
> >
> > I'm looking for information about Giant Squids ;-)
> >
> > By this I mean any Squid (or Harvest) server (or collection of servers which
> > are peered) which handles over 2 million requests per day.
> >
> > Anyone in the UK will probably guess why I want this information, but for the
> > rest fo you this is to try to add some fuel to the debate about one of the
> > centrally funded UK Academic cache networks, which currently uses NetScape
> > proxy, but the same hardware might do better with Squid (at least we could do
> > ICPs to it). They think that Squid couldn't cope, I disagree.
> >
> > -- Jon Peatfield (with cachemaster@damtp.cam.ac.uk hat on)
> >
> > Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, the DAMTP, University of Cambridge
> > Telephone: +44 1223 3 37852 Mail: J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk
> >
> >
>
> We are one of major PC-online service company in Korea.
> Our proxy server are running with squid 1.0.20 on SUN Ultra station 1
> has 256M RAM and 12G Hard disks.
>
> It handles 12 million connections a day.
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  OOPS!!! You carry jokes too far!!! ;-)
  Isn't it 1.2 million?

> You can find daily report in http://proxy.nowcom.co.kr
>
> I am thinking about changing to Netscape proxy if it has benefit
> when works on very busy service area.
> But I have no comparison data squid and Netscape.
> Any comment will be appreciated.
>
>
>

Sincerely,
Hyunchul Kim

 - hckim@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr

PS. Dot is magic.... :)
Received on Wed Nov 27 1996 - 00:49:05 MST