Re: Info on Big Squids wanted

According to Hyunchul Kim:
>
> > 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.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> OOPS!!! You carry jokes too far!!! ;-)
> Isn't it 1.2 million?
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Oh~~~ my mistake! *)

1.2 million is RIGHT.
I missed dot.
You are right: DOT was magic.

And I apologize to every Squiders for messy mail.
  
>
> > 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 - 01:52:41 MST