----- Original Message ----- From: "Khamis Salam-Alada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 2:44 PM Subject: [squid-users] Tweaking Squid for higher performance
> Please does anybody know where I can get a tweaked > version of squid that can support up to 1000/s request > rate in order for squid to reach 1000 request per second, you need to redesign squid from scratch... squid starting to degrade itself when it reaches greater than 100 request per second... since squid is a single thread, it wont scale to higher loads... multi-threading or parallelism is the key for squid to reach your expected throughput aside from better filesystem design for http objects... > or what I can do to increase performance since squid is a single thread and using either select() or poll() function, you are bound by the limitation of these two functions... that is why the bottleneck of squid is on its disk i/o system... if you want to increase its performance, make a RAM filesystem instead of disk filesystem for its web cache.... but of course you already know the pros and cons of using RAM filesystem :-> fooler.
