RE: [squid-users] Proxy Benchmarks

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 03:10, Chris Robertson wrote:
> For my own experience with Squid benchmarking, I used polygraph.

That was the program I was seeing on the net. The squid box does not
even have GCC installed!

> I could
> not get it to compile on RedHat FC1, so I imaged a couple of boxes with
> RedHat 9.
So, it will compile on RH9? Do you have a spec file?? hehe..

>
> I was just looking for a simple load test (I was trouble shooting a CPU
> usage issue), so I used the conf file from
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Benchmarking/Surrogate07/.

Thanks for tips

> There's no better benchmark than real users.

I understand, but better not to risk it not_being_able to withstand the
grunt.

Do you have any experience with load_balance??
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ow Mun Heng [mailto:Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:59 AM
> To: Squid-List
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Proxy Benchmarks
>
>
> Does anyone has any insight to this? Or nobody actually does
> benchmarks??
>
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 15:36, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can One benchmark a squid proxy server? I know about
> > web-polygraph/measurement-factory but the instructions are long and I've
> > yet to really dive into it.
> >
> > Besides, I can't find a RPM (for FC2) for me to use, The Squid Box does
> > not have a compiler and thus I've not idea how to get to compile.

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