Re: [squid-users] requests per second

On 13.03.2012 02:37, guest01 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using Squid as forward-proxy for about 10-20k clients with
> about 1200RPS.
>
> In our setup, we are using 4 physical servers (HP ProLiant DL380
> G6/G7
> with 16CPU, 32GB RAM) with RHEL5.8 64Bit as OS with a dedicated
> hardware loadbalancer. At the moment, the average server load is
> approx 0.6.
>
> We are currently using:
> Squid Cache: Version 3.1.16
> configure options: '--enable-ssl' '--enable-icap-client'
> '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--enable-async-io' '--enable-snmp'
> '--enable-poll' '--with-maxfd=32768' '--enable-storeio=aufs'
> '--enable-removal-policies=heap,lru' '--enable-epoll'
> '--disable-ident-lookups' '--enable-truncate'
> '--with-logdir=/var/log/squid' '--with-pidfile=/var/run/squid.pid'
> '--with-default-user=squid' '--prefix=/opt/squid'
> '--enable-auth=basic
> digest ntlm negotiate'
> '-enable-negotiate-auth-helpers=squid_kerb_auth'
> '--with-aufs-threads=32' '--enable-linux-netfilter'
> '--enable-external-acl-helpers' --with-squid=/home/squid/squid-3.1.16
> --enable-ltdl-convenience
>
> IMHO, it is really important which features you are planning to use.
> For example, we are using authentication (kerberos, ntlm, ldap) and
> ICAP content adaption. Without that, our RPS-rate would be much
> higher. Because of a lacking SMP-support in 3.1, we are using 4
> instances per server. At the beginning, the setup used to be much
> simpler! ;-)

Is that 1200 RPS per-instance? per-server? or for the combined setup?

Amos
PS. intending to add the details to the benchmarks page.
Received on Tue Mar 13 2012 - 03:36:46 MDT