Most Current Squid Benchmarks
Speed and Requirement details of squid are a little hard to come by at present. Here is a list of the community contributed achievements.
If you are running any release of squid and can provide the same details with a better requests-per-second than one listed we would like to know about it.
Sorted by Squid Release and CPU.
Contents
Squid 3.0 STABLE 5
Dual-Core
CPU |
1x Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4 Ghz/800 MHz (2 MB L2 cache) |
RAM |
3 GB PC2-5300 CL5 ECC DDR2 SDRAM DIMM |
HDD |
2x 250 GB SATA in as a mirror configuration |
OS |
OpenSUSE 10.3 |
Users |
~100 |
RPS |
Unknown: 'reasonable response rate' |
Submitted by: Philipp Rusch - New Vision. 2008-07-17. IBM xSeries 3250 M2. This system is doing virus-scanning with ICAP-enabled Squid through KAV 5.5 Kaspersky AntiVirus for Internet Gateways AND it is doing web-content filtering with SquidGuard 1.3 AND it is doing NTLM AUTH against the internal W2k3-ADS-domain
Squid 2.7
No details yet....
Squid 2.6
No details yet....
Squid 2.5 STABLE ??
NP: probably 2.5.STABLE7 or earlier going by the release dates.
CPU |
P4 2.8GHz |
RAM |
4 GB |
HDD |
2 x 36GB 10 RPM, 2 x 73 15 RPM scsi disks |
OS |
Debian 2.4.25 |
Users |
~3200 |
RPS |
220 |
Hit Ratio |
54% |
Submitted by: Martin Marji Cermak. 2005-01-14. http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200501/0374.html
Other Benchmarking
Mark Nottingham benchmarked Squid 2.5 vs 2.6 in late 2006: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2006/08/21/caching_performance
The Measurement Factory benchmarked Squid 2.4, in particular IO systems in 2000 http://polygraph.ircache.net/Results/bakeoff-2/