On 10/15/2014 3:41 AM, Jacques Kruger wrote:
Hi,
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 <http://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.
What are the directives that have the most effect on throughput?
Regards,
Jacques Kruger
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Throughput on squid 2.x (plus the linux kernel from that timeframe) is
limited as we recently found out on one of our servers. In the past with
my testing, Windows with cygwin is even further limited. In our case
with a small ISP level 200Mbps connection, the best our customers could
get with their systems was 20Mbps through linux 2.0.x kernel and squid 2.3.
Same server with updated OS (Scientific Linux 6.5 with latest updates),
same connection using compiled squid 3.4.7, typically up to 4000
customers connecting to it at any given moment, and customers with
50Mbps connections (some of the fastest home connection) were seeing
less than 20% drop, even spanning across the entire US.
Mike
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