Re: [squid-users] Re: RPS

Hi ;

Its really great ,,,

you achieve this with :
1- special drives like SSD , how many , what RAID ???
2- What squid configuration tweak you used , also the tuned kernel ones ,
3- you run squid as transparent proxy or what mode ,
4- can you please share with community your experience ,,, it will be
beneficial to all of us ,
5- this should be added to http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks

Best Regards ,
Liley

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Baird, Josh <jbaird_at_follett.com> wrote:
> Good numbers.  I believe that it would be very beneficial to the community if you wouldn't mind sharing the kernel tweaks and squid  tweaks that you used to achieve these numbers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
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> From: GarethC [mailto:gareth_at_garethcoffey.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:26 PM
> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Re: RPS
>
> Hi there,
>
> As an example, I set up Squid 2.7 on a HP BL460c (4x Quad-core CPU, 24GB
> RAM) with Redhat 5 running bonded NICs over a 2x 2G port channel to a Cisco
> 6509. It took several days of testing to get the Kernel tuned to be able to
> handle a high rate of connections (things like tcp_max_syn_backlog,
> tcp_tw_recycle, tcp_rmem, tcp_fin_timeout etc).
> Squid was also tuned to maximise use of memory, as opposed to disk cache.
>
> The maximum sustained connections achieved was in the region of ~2,000 conns
> per second, and equated to ~980Mbps for a single server. The content that
> was being requested was purely static html and images.
>
> Hope that gives you some sort of view as to what is achievable.
>
> Gareth
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