I finally got a test box for me to work on again. It is a single CPU 1GHz Pentium III with 2 GB RAM, stock Redhat-7.2 + linux-2.5.59. Running squid-3.0-devel using the epoll branch and an added patch to close connections in epoll, I was able to get 1917 requests per second on i.cnn.net.
This is a substantial improvement over my previous test on this box with linux-2.4.9 running squid-2.5.STABLE1. In that test I only got 1333 requests per second. Unfortunately, there are too many variables for me to attribute the increase in performance to squid-3, the new kernel, or the epoll patch. I will try running another test to isolate it if I can. The patch for closing connections in epoll is forthcoming this week. -- David Nicklay Location: CNN Center - SE0811A Office: 404-827-2698 Cell: 404-545-6218
