At 04.33 15/11/2003, Cafe Admin wrote:
Hi All, Does any one know if there is any noticeable peformance difference between Squid on Windows 2000 Server and on RedHat Linux 9? I'm currently running 2.5-Stable3 on a dedicated RH9 box, and I know my hardware is being underutlized (2.0GHz Xeon , 2x10k RPM SCSI, 640MB, 1000Mbps NIC). I'm thinking about converting the machine to Windows File Server/PDC/SquidNT. Serving 30 clients on 100MB network (who are constantly surfing the Net) with 256Kbps connection to the Internet. As always thanks for your feedback.
In the Windows port there are still some limitations:
- Max. 2048 File Descriptors, so more than 100 concurrent client cannot be safely supported
- The internal socket loop is select() based vs poll() or better on Unix/Linux
- Transparent proxy is not available
- Some async FS storage are not available (COSS, diskd)
So currently I expect always better performance from a Linux/Unix based Squid.
In Your configuration I think that major bottleneck can be the line speed: today an Internet bandwidth of 256 Kbit/s for 30 concurrent web client can be very low.
Regards
Guido
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