On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:28 -0400, Travis Derouin wrote:
What are the peak and average requests per second for
a Squid and
Apache server for Wikipedia?
If you're planning on running that Apache server on an SMP machine, look
into running something like nginx[1] over Squid. I did some pretty heavy
load testing with Squid on public:80, Apaches behind it, and with Apache
in front, and Apache (2.x) won out every time with a pretty wide margin.
Squid just can't handle SMP very well, even with multiple squid
instances running in front of Apache. When/if they update the code to
optimize Squid to use threads, it might be worth revisiting again.
I haven't personally made the switch to nginx, but I've heard nothing
but praise for its speed and efficiency.
[1]
http://nginx.net/
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