Re: [squid-users] performance question, 1 or 2 NIC's?

Hi!

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Andrei <funactivities_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Ooo... the line between Squid and the clients is 1000 MB. My internet
> connection is 12MB. Not sure if that changes things. Does it? Would it
> make a difference in that situation if clients (from 1000Mb) come on
> one line, eth0 and get cached on eth1 which is only 12MB.

I assume that MB=Mega Bits (and *not* Megabytes).

If that's the case: is the squid NIC 1Gbps? if so: these are usually
full-duplex (and = to clients connection speed), so: no, you will not
have a real benefit from adding another NIC, but, if you insist, you
could do it without changing most of your configuration, by adding two
NICs together with bonding (and a port-channel on your switch, if it
support it).

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> Sorry if I wasn't clear before
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> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> Leonardo Rodrigues wrote:
>>>
>>> Em 28/08/2010 12:29, Andrei escreveu:
>>>>
>>>> I'm setting up a transparent Squid box for 300 users. All requests
>>>> from the router are sent to the Squid box. Squid box has one NIC,
>>>> eth0. This box receives requests (from clients) and catches content
>>>> from the web using this one NIC on its one WAN port, eth0.
>>>>
>>>> Question: would it improve performance of the Squid box if I was
>>>> receiving requests (from the clients) on eth0 and caching content on
>>>> eth1? In other words, is there a benefit of using two NIC's vs. one?
>>>> This is a public IP/WAN Squid box. Both eth0 and eth1 would have a WAN
>>>> (public IP) address.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm on a 12Mb line.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Your limitation is your 12Mb line .... any decent hardware can handle
>>> that with no problem at all. ANY 100Mbit NIC, even onboard and
>>> cheapers/generics one, can handle 12Mbit with no problem at all.
>>>
>>>    i really dont think adding another NIC will improve your performance,
>>> given your 12Mbit WAN limitation.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Andrei escreveu:
>>  Whether anything can be done by Squid depends on whether the clients using
>> Squid are on the outside of that 12Mb line or on some faster connection
>> between them and Squid.
>>
>>  For a faster internal connection and slower Internet connection you can
>> look towards raising the Hit Ratio' probably the byte hits specifically.
>> That will drop the load on the Internet line and make the whole network
>> appear faster to users. The holy grail for forward proxies seems to be 50%,
>> with reality coming in between 20% and 45% depending on your clients and
>> storage space.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please be using
>>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.7
>>  Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.1
>>
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Received on Sun Aug 29 2010 - 17:12:07 MDT