On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, fooler wrote:
> > My own university cache (~100 concurrent users) peaked out last week at
> > 100 requests/minute. It's normally well under 20 req/min though.
>
> we're having N kilo request per minute each of N squid proxy servers.
How many concurrent users do you have? (estimate?)
> > 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.
>
> according to that URL, which do you prefer, one iMimic 5000 cache engine or
> N squid boxes to achieve the same request per second of that iMimic cache
> engine in terms of price over performance for large scale proxy service?
Dedicated cache appliances will always outperform non-dedicated
general-purpose boxes, due to the performance of the underlying hardware,
TCP/IP stack, etc.
Too bad Microsoft Proxy and Netscape Proxy weren't in that bake-off,
though.
- 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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