On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, fooler wrote:
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> Subject: [plug] squid advantage.....
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> > what are the advantages/disadvantages of using a squid proxy
> > server ?
>
> advantage - its free
> disadvantage - not for large scale proxy because of 160 request per second
> peak throughput.
What is your definition of a "large scale proxy"? AFAIK, the NLANR caches
(http://www.ircache.net/Cache/Statistics/Vitals/Html/1-day.html) peak
at 35 requests/second (06/23).
My own university cache (~100 concurrent users) peaked out last week at
100 requests/minute. It's normally well under 20 req/min though.
According to the Second IRCache Web Cache Bake-off,
(http://polygraph.ircache.net/Results/bakeoff-2/) Squid finished second in
overall response time, and had the highest hit ratio.
In my case, throughput is secondary to bandwidth saved. It depends on your
applications, and whether you have bandwidth to burn.
- Elfredy Cadapan
- Institute of Computer Science, Univ. of the Philippines at Los Banos
- Home page : http://www.ics.uplb.edu.ph/~evc/
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