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

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> 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

Do these limits depend on hardware ?
if yes, what is the hardware that was used to find these limits ?

Marcus
Received on Tue Jan 29 2008 - 02:02:20 MST