Re: [squid-users] Patching Squid 2.6 icap patch with Squid-2.6.STABLE10 - problem

Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Christos Tsantilas <christos@chtsanti.net>:
>
>>> But since, i had heard that Squid 2.6 version had better performance
>>> than Squid 3.0, i would like to try that also as a backup.
>> Squid 3 is enough fast for most cases. You will not see any difference in
>> performance unless you have a very-very busy proxy server.
>
> I can confirm that. We switched from 2.6 -> 3.0 with no hassle (at 100
> requests/s)
>

I had Adrian benchmark 3.x recently. With his specific RAM-pathways test.

The cutoff for speed seems to be Squid3 reaching 500-650 req/sec and
Squid 2.6 going past that into the 800-900 req/sec ranges. At a few
hundred concurrent requests.

Amos

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Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17+ or 3.0STABLE1+
There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.