Re: [squid-users] squid 3.x expected max throughput

You probably want to check http://wiki.squid-cache.org/KnowledgeBase/Benchmarks

Unfortunately the benchmarks reported are often expressed as RPS and
not bandwidth.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Youssef Ghorbal <djo_at_pasteur.fr> wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2013, at 10:37 AM, Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Youssef Ghorbal <djo_at_pasteur.fr> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there any recent figures about max throughput to be expected from a squid 3.x install (on recent hardware) in the scenario of a single stream downloading a large file (> 1GB) (read not cacheable)
>>> I'm aware that's not a performance metric per se, but it's one of the scenarios we have to deal with.
>>>
>>> Few weeks ago, Amos talked about 50Mb/s (client + server) for a squid 3.1
>>
>> Hi,
>> 50mb/s seems a very conservative estimate to me; in that scenario
>> Squid is essentially acting as a network pipe.
>> Assuming this is a lab (and we can thus ignore bandwidth and latency
>> on the internet link), the expectation is that this kind of scenario
>> for squid will be CPU and network I/O bound, so in order to give any
>> sensible answer we'd need to know what kind of network interface you
>> would use (fast-ethernet? Giga-ethernet copper? Giga-ethernet fiber?
>> Even faster?), what kind of CPU and what kind of system architecture
>> (server-class? pc-class? virtual?)
>
> I'm agree, it's a LAB and we can ignore bandwidth and latency of Internet link. And it's exactly what you said it's a scenario where Squid is essentially acting as a network pipe.
> Here is a summary of the hardware :
> - 1Gb ethernet NIC (copper) : the same of client and server traffic.
> - 16GB RAM
> - 2 CPUs Quad Core (Xeon E5420 2.5Ghz per core) : I think that the many cores are not relevent since a single stream will eventually be handled by a single core.
> - FreeBSD 8.3 amd64
>
> What I'm seeing right now is ~50Mb/s on 3.1 release (as Amos said earlier) which seems very conservative estimate to me too, and I was seeking infos on what can be expected in a perfect world.
> If it's the current best figures I can get, that's fine and I'll not be looking to optmise anything else. If it can do a lot better (let's say 10 times better) I'll try to investgate time to reach this (upgrade to the last release, tune the configuration, tune the system etc)
>
> Youssef

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    /kinkie