Re: [squid-users] Squid Proxy sizes

From: Gokhan ERYOL <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:44:05 +0200

Here, I installed squid for 8000 people, with approximately 12000
request per minute, 155 Mbps inside, 34 Mbps dedicated outside bandwidth
and works like a charm. Some adjustment should be done for memory sizing.

Clustering with second one will bring redundancy.

Regards,
Gokhan ERYOL

Marc Elsen wrote:

>Neil Thompson wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I may be asked shortly to provide web proxy/caching solutions for some
>>(for me) rather large Internet connections. 12-15000 people per site and
>>the Internet lines are 10-20Mbit in size.
>>
>>I have run squid successfully on lines up to 2.5Mbit with about 2000
>>people using the servers running Linux (RedHat 6.2 & 7.3) and squid
>>2.4STABLE6.
>>
>>Will I be able to ramp up to the larger lines, and what sort of
>>hardware/software combinations will I need?
>>
>>I have checked the FAQ and the sizing link and that doesn't go near the
>>numbers I need to support.
>>
>>
>
> Not sure, I had some nearbye network admins from Leuven University
> abandoning squid for 20000 users because they said it was too slow.
> They went for cisco hw caching solutions.
>
> Opinions my vary.
>
> M.
>
>
>
>>TIA.
>>
>>--
>>
>>Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew)
>>
>>Neil
>>
>>
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>
>
Received on Mon Mar 17 2003 - 04:45:31 MST

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