> > From scanning the Squid website and archives it looks like Squid might be > > able to do this. I see that Squid can be configured in reverse-proxy mode as > > a load balancer. I've also seen indications that HTTP1.1 persistent > > connections is supported - but I haven't been successful at finding clear & > > definitive documentation on this. > > Squid supports HTTP/1.0 persistent connections. Squid does not yet fully > support HTTP/1.1.
Thanks for the clarification. Even without pipelining, persistent connections should free up significant CPU on the real servers. I've been trying to find some benchmarks so that I can get an idea how many incoming concurrent connections Squid can process per second when acting as a load balancer in reverse proxy mode with persistent connections to real servers. Any ideas where I can find some numbers? Thanks ed
