[squid-users] Question on throughput

[Stephen Baynes]

On a multi CPU box - the number of Squid workers has a very big effect
of the throughput.

Stephen

On 15 October 2014 09:41, Jacques Kruger <Jacques.Kruger at pupkewitz.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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>
>
> I’ve implemented my fair share of squid proxies over the past couple of
> years and I’ve always been able to find a solution in the mail archive, but
> this time around I’m stumped. This is the first time I’ve used squid with a
> fast (in our context) internet connection, specifically a 4G connection that
> the provider claims can run up to 100Mbps. Claims aside, my real-world
> testing is not what I’m expecting. I’ve used two squid instances, one on
> PFsence (2.7.9) and one on Windows (2.7Stable8) and compared the throughput
> to a connection without squid and what I’ve found is, when testing with
> www.speedtest.net the throughput is roughly half with squid compared to a
> direct connection. I’ve left to configuration pretty much default and have
> tried to tweak, both without success.
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> What are the directives that have the most effect on throughput?
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> Regards,
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>
> Jacques Kruger
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>
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