Re: [squid-users] need suggestion for bulk users

thanks for sharing your experience
but what about ISPs who are handling thousands of queries . aren't
they using squid? AFAIK my ISP is usring squid and its a biggest ISP
in whole country. and some time i am getting the squid error messages.
so what would be their strategy ?

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:33 AM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+squid_at_g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> 2012/5/5 Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp_at_gmail.com>:
>> right now i am handling 35 users with a squid having 512 MB ram and
>> it is on virtual server KVM linux, things are working fine. but for my
>> career growth i am looking for a good path to continue with squid.
>> like for example if i move to another org. and they have like around
>> 300 or 500 users . how come ill manage that. i know 512 configuration
>> of squid will not handle that bulk queries. so what is the best
>> approach. or do you think this tiny (few GB) 512 MB squid VM gonna
>> work with 500 users....... however our processor (right now) and
>> hardware is strong it is Xeone quade core. 2.6 .
>>
>> and for me an important question is. how ISP is using Squid what kind
>> of infrastructure they have. apart from storage i know ISPs are
>> caching youtube and other web contents to lower down their traffic so
>> i know they must have good storage system like SAN or NAS but how
>> would they cater all the queries where thousands of users are hitting
>> just one single box.(may be) ????
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Our most heavily used proxy is also our most outdated and oldest
> machine at the moment, it is still a hardware machine and not virtual,
> it's a dualcore (or dualsocket) Xeon 2.4GHz, has only 1G of RAM, on
> average has 500-600 users and handles about 200-300G of traffic per
> day.
> It's caching performance is less good both due to the much more
> diverse nature of the browsing and downloading and the much smaller
> cache that it can have since it is only using it's internal harddisks
> and not any storage servers.
> I think that nicely shows the power of squid.
> If you just use it as a device to enable people to get to the Internet
> and monitor/block small amounts of traffic even 'weak' machines can
> handle a lot.
>
> HTH,
> Eli
Received on Sat May 05 2012 - 21:24:24 MDT