For my own experience with Squid benchmarking, I used polygraph. I could not get it to compile on RedHat FC1, so I imaged a couple of boxes with RedHat 9. You don't need to involve your Squid cache at all in the compilation process. Just grab some surplus hardware (it doesn't take much to generate lots of traffic), and make a client and a server. If you are feeling really lazy, I imagine that you could put the client and server program on the same machine. I don't know what that will do to the results...
I was just looking for a simple load test (I was trouble shooting a CPU usage issue), so I used the conf file from http://www.squid-cache.org/Benchmarking/Surrogate07/. There's no better benchmark than real users. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Ow Mun Heng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:59 AM To: Squid-List Subject: Re: [squid-users] Proxy Benchmarks Does anyone has any insight to this? Or nobody actually does benchmarks?? On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 15:36, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > How can One benchmark a squid proxy server? I know about > web-polygraph/measurement-factory but the instructions are long and I've > yet to really dive into it. > > Besides, I can't find a RPM (for FC2) for me to use, The Squid Box does > not have a compiler and thus I've not idea how to get to compile.
