Re: [squid-users] My squid is slower than apache

Words by 程卫星 [Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 11:07:32PM +0800]:
> I use apache 2.0.59 and squid 2.6.STABLE13, and test with apache's ab command:
> ab -n 100000 -c 50 http://***/header.jpg
> When use apache only, the result is:
> --------------------
> Concurrency Level: 50
> Time taken for tests: 2.805669 seconds
> Complete requests: 10000
> Failed requests: 0
> Write errors: 0
> Total transferred: 325499626 bytes
> HTML transferred: 321909602 bytes
> Requests per second: 3564.21 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 14.028 [ms] (mean)
> Time per request: 0.281 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
> Transfer rate: 113295.61 [Kbytes/sec] received
> -------------------------
> When use squid with apache, test result is:
> -------------------------
> Concurrency Level: 50
> Time taken for tests: 3.739039 seconds
> Complete requests: 10000
> Failed requests: 0
> Write errors: 0
> Total transferred: 326745046 bytes
> HTML transferred: 322174102 bytes
> Requests per second: 2674.48 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 18.695 [ms] (mean)
> Time per request: 0.374 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
> Transfer rate: 85339.04 [Kbytes/sec] received
> ------------------------------
> So my question is: why squid is slower than apache? Thanks.

Choose one or both of:

1. Because squid is misconfigured.
2. Because your test is biased.

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