RE: [squid-users] Squid NT vs. Squid Linux

Thanks Serassio and Adam for your feedback. I look briefly at Samba 3.0 and
it looks like it will do the job for me. I need to read a little more about
it to be able to configure it.

As Serassio pointed out WAN bandwidth would be my bottleneck. I'm painfully
aware of this fact: but unfortunately bandwidth isn't readily available and
the little available is quite expensive in where this LAN is.

Any recommendation on what hardware can comfortably handle 30-50 clients? As
you can see I'm counting on Squid to solve a little of my bandwidth problem.
I wouldn't want Squid to become the bottleneck instead so I don't mind
investing in a slightly higher performance hardware for Squid if that would
help.

Thanks again for your response.


-----Original Message-----
From: Serassio Guido [mailto:guido.serassio@acmeconsulting.it]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 2:47 AM
To: Cafe Admin; squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid NT vs. Squid Linux


Hi,

At 04.33 15/11/2003, Cafe Admin wrote:

>Hi All,
>Does any one know if there is any noticeable peformance difference between
>Squid on Windows 2000 Server and on RedHat Linux 9? I'm currently running
>2.5-Stable3 on a dedicated RH9 box, and I know my hardware is being
>underutlized (2.0GHz Xeon , 2x10k RPM SCSI, 640MB, 1000Mbps NIC). I'm
>thinking about converting the machine to Windows File Server/PDC/SquidNT.
>Serving 30 clients on 100MB network (who are constantly surfing the Net)
>with 256Kbps connection to the Internet. As always thanks for your
feedback.

In the Windows port there are still some limitations:

- Max. 2048 File Descriptors, so more than 100 concurrent client cannot be
safely supported
- The internal socket loop is select() based vs poll() or better on
Unix/Linux
- Transparent proxy is not available
- Some async FS storage are not available (COSS, diskd)

So currently I expect always better performance from a Linux/Unix based
Squid.

In Your configuration I think that major bottleneck can be the line speed:
today an Internet bandwidth of 256 Kbit/s for 30 concurrent web client can
be very low.

Regards

Guido



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